comcast strikes again....

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > newsgroups are going to fade.  RSS feeds are more widely used by most
> > internet users and do not require ISPs to have lots of local storage.
>
>   It is interesting to observe how usage dynamics have evolved as the
> cost of storage, bandwidth, and administration overhead has changed.
>


The game has changed.

Sun had an issue with Solaris 8 (7?) web server/network performance vs
Linux.  Solaris was 30% slower on the same benchmark.

They looked at thier network stack and found it was designed for a Sun
Sparcstation 1.  Typical config was 100 MB disk, 16 MB RAM.  Linux's stack
was optimized for much more ram.

Solaris 9 & especially 10 is now much faster as it's designed with more RAM,
etc.
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