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[Joe Reid <jreid AT vnet.net>]

> My irrelevant point regarding speed was just one that I threw out to
> counter the relentless diatribe that comes from zealots.   The speed
> thing, while true, was merely a dig in response to the ludicrous
> propaganda seeded earlier. Apache forks processes which is more resource
> intensive than the mechanism used by IIS.  Of course, Apache is changing
> for its next release though...

Unix is designed with much lower overhead for forks than many other
OS's.  In the end the "speed" of a web server has little to do with the
web server itself (most are more than fast enough), it's all about
network latency.

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Joe Reid
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Tactical Solaris Systems Engineering and Administration
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