From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 10:37:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04780 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04751 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:37:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id LAA02139; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:36:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05988; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:36:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:36:01 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a possibly interesting article... In-Reply-To: <199803231744.JAA13231@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (followups probably better directed to chat...) On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > What's most amusing to me is that they require this obscene pile of > garbage to put out a measly 350GB/day. > > Wcarchive does about 250GB with a single P6. 8) That is not a fair comparison. Dynamic content is very different than static content. Microsoft does an awful lot of dynamic content on their website, sometimes for no apparent reason. wcarchive does very little dynamic content from what I would guess. I'm not claiming that NT isn't horrible and doesn't require more hardware, especially to make it stable, but this particular comparison really isn't too meaningful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message