From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 11:32:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DE637B424 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95E2666DF6; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:51 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Giglio Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hotmail converted from freeBSD Message-ID: <20010424113251.C83693@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010424160312.14367.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010424160312.14367.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>; from markgiglio@yahoo.com on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:12AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:12AM -0700, Mark Giglio wrote: > Hi i heard this happened and one of their main > business drivers was that "The cgi > "one-process-per-socket" model, under FreeBSD, is very > inefficient." >=20 > I am interested in FreeBSD and how it compares to > other systems like win2000, esp because I would like > to build a big powerful super computer and am > investigating options for my os. >=20 > first of all, (please humbly pardon my ignorance) what > does the comment re sockets mean. secondly, is this > true about bsd. and thirdly, can it be improved, or > is it a property of cgi and fixed? You can run inefficient applications on any OS. FreeBSD can be (and usually is) a very efficient webserver, but MS weren't interested in making their hotmail scripts efficient, they wanted to switch to Win2k instead for political reasons. Kris --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE65cbSWry0BWjoQKURAqC+AJ92JxOSAvsrmAi6PuLuPcIePfrwWQCeMJOD UEkq/Nv7q/SA7qu02JEE3IU= =Xmtd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message