From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 13:58:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA01911 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:58:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01892 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:58:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.6.12/Unknown) with ESMTP id PAA13048; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:02:01 -0700 Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA30160; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:57:54 -0700 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199603042157.OAA30160@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: performance of FreeBSD on Pentium Pro? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:57:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: kallio@cc.jyu.fi, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, zing@pacificws.com, questions@freebsd.com In-Reply-To: <199603041055.VAA12768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 4, 96 09:25:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, Michael Smith once said: > (Remeber, you _are_ running a monster web server, IIRC 8) > > It seems that the harvest cache daemon and apache are poised to finally > kill off the cern daemon; any comments from someone actually using them? Yeah. Unfortunatly, I disagree. Harvest Cache needs one small thing (that I haven't had the time to even peek at implimenting here. :-) to kill off cern: The ability to handle conditional gets for if-modified-since (and to *use* them). As it was, we tried it out with some of our customers, and it nullifies the effects of their local on-disk cache, actually increasing the bandwidth used between us and the customer. On the other hand, in a *very* small alpha test, we were getting a surprisingly high cache hit rate. Once the if-modified-since support is implimented, I'll agree completely with you. -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."