Re: www.microsoft.com cant handle the load ?

As I remember, the PC Magazine did a comparision of most webservers, running on NT vs. Solaris (inlcuding Netscape, IIS, Apache, etc).

The result was quite impressive and should explain why this thread exists.

*All* servers performed approx twice better on NT than on Solaris, but .... only while there was less than 6 clients. Just after 6 clients *all* servers was saturated and consistently dropped down their performance with each new client endlessly. PC Magazine stopped testing after 22 clients.

On the other hand, *all* servers consistently increased their performance under Solaris with each new client, until 44 clients, where the test was stopped for them. There was no clear sign of saturation ever.

Clients were some special "very active" browser-simulators. So, I think this is not IIS, who made the bottleneck, but this is NT (Never Try). Good system for 5-node networks.

Igor N Kovalenko

Sang K. Choe <sangria_at_inlink.com> wrote in article <3350494b.97788625_at_siesta>...
> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997 05:52:12 GMT, douyang_at_novice.uwaterloo.ca (Darwin
> Ouyang) wrote:
>
> : In article <5ieo3g$rtj$1_at_NNTP.MsState.Edu>,
> : Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
> :
> : >Tried to connect to www.microsoft.com out of curiosity
> : >and got the following message :
 

> : >HTTP/1.0 Server Too Busy
 

> : >I am surprised to say the least ! ....
> :
> : IE4 Public Beta 1 came out today. :) I guess they weren't ready for the
> : influx of people. heh.
>
> This always happens with a major release of their public beta or
> freeware products.
>
> When IIS 1.0 was first released (Feb 12th as I recall), you were lucky
> if you could get better than 100 bytes/sec from Redmond.
>
> Same deal with IE 3.0 was released--recall that launch quite vividly.
> They gave you a six hour time frame to download and register it to get
> a prize. Of course, given the number of people trying to download it,
> you were lucky if you could download the whole thing in 6 days let
> alone 6 hours...
>
> -- Sang.
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  Received on Thu Apr 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT