Re: RE: Ethics question...

> Apache doesn't have threading (yet). > If your business depends upon it, you may want to take a look at > Solaris/Zeus if you are really getting heavy load high traffic. We serve millions of hits a day off of a small farm of FreeBSD servers running Apache+php for our dynamic content. Thttpd for our static pages (images, etc). Our farm used to be linux, but FreeBSD has been better. Linux 2.2 would flake out under extreme load and not recover. FreeBSD gets stressed under extreme load as well, but it recovers. If you know redhat better and can't use Freebsd, that is fine. It might save _you_ more time to use redhat as the savings in administration could easlily be overturned if you don't know freebsd better than redhat. Don't get me wrong, on a personal note, I love linux (the most, I might add). I think the single most importand piece of software that saves us the most money is thttpd. That all runs in a single thread and uses select to pump out content. Since it is a single thread, it never chews up tons of memory forking children. I think our farm would need to be twice as big if we tried to use apache for our static content. I have nothing bad to say about apache, don't get me wrong. This is simply the way that works best for us. Our DB lives on a separate quad sparc and all of our content is centralized and remotely NFS mounted. Jeremy Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "LINUX is obsolete" -- Andy Tanenbaum, January 29th, 1992 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.JEEP-FOR-SALE.com/ -- I need a buyer Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/