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To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Subject: Re: Yahoo release 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:48:07 MDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:55:17 -0700
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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

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