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  • From: Joe Reid <jreid AT vnet.net>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Database inquiry
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:56:33 -0500


> 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.

--
Joe Reid
jreid AT vnet.net
Tactical Solaris Systems Engineering and Administration
http://www.singlewhitemale.net
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