From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 15:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0D415151 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01909; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:58:03 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:58:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Michael Urban Cc: Ludwig Pummer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nt outperforms Linux for web/file server? In-Reply-To: <376D714F.DC1AAE3E@webzone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Michael Urban wrote: > Tani Hosokawa wrote: > > > You're also missing the fact that NT did kick Apache/Linux' ass in the > > test, and would have done so regardless what kernel patches/Apache tweaks > > were applied. Fact is, Apache's not a high performance web server .. > > Um... What?? > > Apache consistantly recieves very high marks on the fact that it is very fast, > and very high performance. If Apache was not a high performance web server, > then over half the web sites in the world would not be running it. Surely you jest :) Apache is used by most people because it's free, and by the people who don't fall into that category, because it's extensible and easy to program for. It's certainly not one of the fastest webservers out there. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message