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List:       freebsd-chat
Subject:    Re: Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft
From:       "John S. Dyson" <dyson () FreeBSD ! ORG>
Date:       1998-04-27 22:08:46
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Andreas Klemm said:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:38:13AM +0100, nik@iii.co.uk wrote:
> > In a leaked report, sources close to Hotmail said:  "... its whole mail
> > server infrastructure is Solaris. NT couldn't handle it. On the web
> > server, they're running MP Pentiums and Apache on FreeBSD. They're
> 					  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > moving to Solaris for threads.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Does that mean we are not performing well enough without doing
> more on our threads implementation ? Someone with a good guess ?
> 
It could be that their apps depend on threads, and ours aren't
maybe that good yet.  They might be wanting kernel threads, and
I am 100% on them now.  The VM system, SMP, and buffer cache code
are beckoning, but I am avoiding their siren call right now. :-).

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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