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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:25:10 +0100
From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk>
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Dave Bodenstab wrote:
> 
> Has anyone noticed the Oct 20 issue of PC magazine references
> FreeBSD (p227) in a comparison with NT?  (I don't know if this is
> online anywhere.) They benchmark FreeBSD 2.2.7 vs. NT as a web
> server and make the claim "FreeBSD outperfomed Windows NT by a
> sizeable margin, however, as you increase RAM, Windows NT surpasses
> FreeBSD because of a cache limitation in Apache and FreeBSD".
> 
> What "cache limitation" are they talking about?
> 
> Dave Bodenstab
> imdave@mcs.net

This has been getting a lot of coverage in
freebsd-chat. If you don't get an answer, try
looking in the archives for the past week or so of
freebsd-chat.


Chris R.


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