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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:48 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kallio@cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, zing@pacificws.com, questions@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: performance of FreeBSD on Pentium Pro?
Message-ID:  <199603041055.VAA12768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91ska.960304124032.22458A-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi> from "Seppo Kallio" at Mar 4, 96 12:43:16 pm

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Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying:
> 
>> Unless you are expecting _very_ heavy loading, a Pentium system will carry
>> your load perfectly well.  Just make sure you ask the isp@freebsd.org people
>> for tips on tuning for maximum web performance.
> 
> I agree as long as we do not speak about CERN httpd + proxy + cache
> 
> After my experience the proxy + cache services need much more CPU + i/o 
> power than usual web service.

(Remeber, you _are_ running a monster web server, IIRC 8)

It seems that the harvest cache daemon and apache are poised to finally
kill off the cern daemon; any comments from someone actually using them?

> Seppo

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