From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 11:17:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28167 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com ([205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA28161 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emilyd ([206.250.85.68]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA20645; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:50:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199706051850.LAA20645@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: Jim Dixon Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:15:23 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: news server source for 95/NT Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > > While it's true that NT will probably require more memory to get the > > system up and running, and while it's also true that you will probably > > have to buy software (although I'm sure Netscape and others would be > > as happy to sell you a news server as Microsoft would), it's complete > > and utter bull to assert that NT will "fall over" under a full news > > feed. It show's that you simply have no clue what you're talking > > about. In fact, I would bet that you have no experience whatsoever > > doing anything demanding with NT. > > That's quite true. I do however have experience of doing things with > NT that _aren't_ demanding and watching it fall over. > > -- > Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net > tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 > I'd be interested in some examples here--and what the examples are running on. I use fbsd and nt in both mixed and homogeneous environments and find both quite stable, although bsd does come out ahead. But both have their strenghts, with some overlap. And weaknesses. Not to start (or continue) a flame war, but if nt "falls over" in undemanding situations I'd like to know them. Hmmm, I did have to reboot an NT web server yesterday--first time this year--but think just a restart of Fasttrack would have done the trick. If ol' Bill keeps his promise to pump 1x10**9 bucks into NT next year will the performance issue still be around? Cheers, Riley