From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 10 20:37:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28275 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28263 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:36:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-88.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.88]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA32539 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA25393 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804110336.WAA25393@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Yahoo release In-reply-to: Message from David Greenman of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:55:17 PDT." <199804110155.SAA14646@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:40 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Greenman writes: > >You can read the whole press release here: > > > > http://www.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release166.html > > > >I'd say taking a 1000 hits/sec must require a stable OS. :-) > > Keep in mind, however, that this is spread out over a whole bunch of > servers - I think something like >70 at just the west coast POP. Although > I believe they are doing several million hits/day per server, so I think > it is still impressive. But before we stick our necks out too far, Yahoo! and Oracle jointly made a press release recently. Think it mentioned NT too. So how much of Yahoo! is still FreeBSD? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message