Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:55:17 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yahoo release Message-ID: <199804110155.SAA14646@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:48:07 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410194158.1274A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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>Yahoo had a press release today about their profits last quarter. > >Since people have been saying we should show that FBSD is stable by >pointing out Yahoo and Walnut Creek, I thought this statement in their >press release was very interesting. > >"Yahoo! also announced that traffic on the Yahoo! global network of > properties increased to an average of 95 million page views per day > during the month of March 1998, compared to an average of 65 million > page views per day in December 1997." > >Note that averages out to over a 1000 hits/second! > >You can read the whole press release here: > > http://www.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release166.html > >I'd say taking a 1000 hits/sec must require a stable OS. :-) Keep in mind, however, that this is spread out over a whole bunch of servers - I think something like >70 at just the west coast POP. Although I believe they are doing several million hits/day per server, so I think it is still impressive. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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