On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > newsgroups are going to fade. RSS feeds are more widely used by most > > internet users and do not require ISPs to have lots of local storage. > > It is interesting to observe how usage dynamics have evolved as the > cost of storage, bandwidth, and administration overhead has changed. > The game has changed. Sun had an issue with Solaris 8 (7?) web server/network performance vs Linux. Solaris was 30% slower on the same benchmark. They looked at thier network stack and found it was designed for a Sun Sparcstation 1. Typical config was 100 MB disk, 16 MB RAM. Linux's stack was optimized for much more ram. Solaris 9 & especially 10 is now much faster as it's designed with more RAM, etc.
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