From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 21 15:09:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07492 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07482 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: (qmail 26193 invoked by alias); 21 Aug 1998 22:09:03 -0000 Message-ID: <19980821220903.26191.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 26179 invoked from network); 21 Aug 1998 22:09:03 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 1998 22:09:03 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: Ron Steele , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:09:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Is anyone using AOLserver under FreeBSD? Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <9808211810.AA13591@ara.office.aol.com> References: <199808210651.XAA19476@ralf.serv.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Aug 98, at 14:10, Ron Steele wrote: > I haven't tried the linux version and I don't know of a freebsd version. > However, aolserver is highly threaded. Given Freebsd's rather > limited support for threads, I think you would get poor performance, > if it worked at all. The preferred platform for aolserver is Digital Unix, > where it really screams. I happen to have this configuration setting > on a box next to my desk, and really love it. I don't know why you say Digital is the preferred platform, but probably the busiest site that runs AOLserver is www.aol.com. They run it on a farm of SGI Origin 200 servers (Irix 6.2). >From the AOLserver download page: "Unsupported platforms: FreeBSD, IBM AIX, Windows 95 and Windows NT" The fact that they specifically exclude FreeBSD suggest that they have some particular reason for doing so. Which means you probably won't have much luck making it work. (What's interesting to note is that they supported WinNT up through v2.1. When was the last time you heard of someone *dropping* NT support?) > I hear that FreeBSD 3.0 is going to have thread support. It would > probably be worth a look at that point. Hopefully this is why they don't support FreeBSD, so that may change when 3.0 comes out. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message