From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 09:36:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24613 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24460; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:35:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA09509; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:57:35 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199803231457.PAA09509@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: a possibly interesting article... To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:57:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803231624.IAA12890@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Mar 23, 98 08:24:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > ... on how microsoft manages its web server (May 1997). > > > > http://microsoft.com/syspro/technet/tnnews/features/mscom.htm > > > > The web page has some data, and a pointer to an article in MSWord > > format. > > this article is dated May 8, 1997. > > in email on the FreeBSD mailing lists, a person from > microsoft disavowed the accuracy of this article. > when asked for accurate data, they never replied. in fact i cannot really parse the numbers, and in some places I have no idea if they use "MB" for megaBYTES or megaBITS ... one of the sentences claims a bandwidth of 1800MB/s and a 4-CPU P6 machine pumping out 120MB/s of data ... over FDDI(s)... cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message