Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:36:45 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Apache at Yahoo! Message-ID: <19981018133645.D27419@best.com> In-Reply-To: <3629E3FD.210F0B1B@pipeline.ch>; from Andre Oppermann on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:50:05PM %2B0200 References: <3629E3FD.210F0B1B@pipeline.ch>
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:50:05PM +0200, Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> wrote: > In Apache Week issue 134 (16th October 1998) they wrote: > > -snip- > The first talk on the second day was by _John Patrick_ from IBM > ([9]picture). He talked about his view of how the Internet will > evolve. In the last session, _David Filo_ from Yahoo! showed how > Yahoo! has used open source software ([10]picture). They started by > using commercial operating systems and home-written web servers, but > had problems with vendors not being able to scale to the huge number > of hits they soon received. They moved to FreeBSD so they could read > and if necessary tweak the operating system code. They also use > Apache > on most of their servers and find that the majority of the > performance > limitations come from the application layer software. > -snip- > > To read the whole story go to http://www.apacheweek.com/ > > -- > Andre > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message Yup... I actually asked David if they were fully switched to 2.2 branch by now and his answer was: "Well, we have a few 2.1 systems with more then a year uptime. It makes no sence for us to upgrade if it works". -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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