From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 3 4: 4:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from proxon.bnc.net (proxon.bnc.net [62.225.99.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E48E37B401 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 04:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noses@proxon.bnc.net) Received: (from noses@localhost) by proxon.bnc.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f53B4Nr07816; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:04:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from noses) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:04:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200106031104.f53B4Nr07816@proxon.bnc.net> From: Noses To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real "technical comparison" Organization: Noses' cave In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hackers,mpc.lists.freebsd.hackers User-Agent: tin/1.5.6-20000803 ("Dust") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.3-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you wrote: >> Thank you for not telling it to one of my servers which is running >> around with about 100000 concurrent connections biting its tail. I >> wouldn't like to hurt its feelings. And I've got the feeling that it >> will have to bear a bit more of that beating. > > Interesting, what's that thing doing ? Grabing stuff from a number of database servers, combining it, turning it into HTML-documents (including converting graphics formats) and handing them off to the web servers which requested it. Which is causing a nice mix of network load and computations. And no, the server isn't even the highest possible end, not even near it; even my desktop machine has more CPU than this server (I'm just jelous of its RAM size). Noses. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message