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From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com>
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Subject: Re: SPECweb96 challenge
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On Thu, Apr 16, 1998, Don Wilde wrote:

> > Novell Web Server Pushes Envelope
> > 
> >    Novell, Inc. reached a SPECweb96 benchmark of 1639 running
> >    intraNetWare 4.11 on a single processor Compaq ProLiant 3000.
> 
> I saw this in Internet Alert, an e-mail newsletter. Since we know FreeBSD
> excells as a webserver under load, this is our opportunity to set up to shoot
> some crows out of the sky. I don't personally like ProLiant servers, but let's
> see if we can approximate their hardware and tune our software -- out of the
> box, no source-code tweaks -- to dominate this SPEC. Have you looked at it?
> 
> 1) Obtain SPECweb96 test guidelines
> 2) Obtain equivalent test platform hardware
> 3) Configure FreeBSD for max serving performance
> 4) Configure Apache for max serving performance
> 5) Run test
> 6) Promote results heavily!!!!!
> 
> My best hardware is a PPro180 with 64MB, so I don't have a new enough machine,
> but I think this is exactly the kind of thing we FreeBSD advocates need to do to
> promote FreeBSD -- and get the IW's and NWW's and Byte's to acknowledge us. If
> we've got TBDOSITW, let's _prove_ it.

There is only one point you missed: the SPECweb96 benchmark costs $800 :-(

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com

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