>Are you by chance running this on MacOS X? No, though I'm tempted to upgrade the machine and try.
>We had some trouble recently with one of our MacOS servers. We ended up >upgrading to Jaguar and most of the problems went away. We still had >problems with trying to run a server on port 80 without being root. I >think one of the networking upgrades on 10.0 basically was incompatible >with Squeak in some weird way. Interesting - good to know. >I have to say that for me they were going the same rate (i.e. slow), but >that could simply be a function of where you are on the network. The only >really disturbing thing was that Mozilla was reloading the icons every >time. The icons are substantially the same on any page, so you shouldn't >have much slowdown besides the first time that you are loading them. >Instead, it seemed extremely slow. Also, the icons all have width and height >tags that should allow the page to render faster, not making it seem >nearly as slow. The failure of icons to be cached was concerning me too, since these are basically default installations, and I couldn't see any reason my Web browsers (all the ones I tried) would fail to cache icons. >I'm not sure if OS X has any support for things like ipchains and >iptables. On our linux servers, we run the server on port 8080 and use >iptables to map port 80 to port 8080. I can't tell the difference in >speed between the two. I tried doing port mapping from 80 to 8080 in the software router that's running on the same machine, but it didn't seem to work. Thanks! cheers... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS: =Adam Engst= <http://www.tidbits.com/>
