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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Peter Georgaras <pgeorgar@bigpond.net.au>
  Date: 20 Jun 2001 13:30:43 +0930

Re: [Article] Red Hat Tux 2.0 blows away Apache

On 20 Jun 2001 11:41:57 +0930, Peter Georgaras wrote:

> Working closely with Dell Computer's Performance Engineering group (the 
> original group that first published Tux's amazing performance benchmarks on 
> the SPECWeb 99 benchmark) a test performed at eWeek Labs found that Tux was 
> able to perform nearly three times faster than current Web server mainstay 
> Apache (12,792 transactions per second vs. 4,602 tps) when running a mix of 
> dynamic and static Web content.

They've not clearly defined what they mean when they say "dynamic"
content. Does this mean a Perl script interfacing via DBI to a
400000-line PostgreSQL Database? Maybe it's a PHP Script or Python
Application. Then again, I thought that Tux web server didn't do dynamic
content.
 
> The fact that Tux 2.0 was also significantly faster than Windows 2000's 
> Internet Information Server 5.0 Web server (5,137 requests per second) 
> clearly shows the advantages of Tux's new design over that of a 
> well-established Web server. The next version of IIS (which ships with 
> Microsoft Corp.'s Whistler project) uses several ideas introduced by Tux, 
> including the kernel-space design.

But Microsoft won't admit that they've been inspired by the OpenSource
competition, as everyone knows that it's a backwards and fruitless way
of developing software. :-)

   - andrew

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