Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-16 Thread Wes Peters
Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > Though, a lack of good Unicode support on FreeBSD seems like > > > a legitimate enough reason for the move. > > > > Yes, it would, if it were true, see /usr/ports/devel/libunicode. > > One port does not make good support. For that FreeBDS has to > have native unicode s

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Bakul Shah
> > Though, a lack of good Unicode support on FreeBSD seems like > > a legitimate enough reason for the move. > > Yes, it would, if it were true, see /usr/ports/devel/libunicode. One port does not make good support. For that FreeBDS has to have native unicode support. > In order to determine i

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Wes Peters
Bakul Shah wrote: > > Though, a lack of good Unicode support on FreeBSD seems like > a legitimate enough reason for the move. Yes, it would, if it were true, see /usr/ports/devel/libunicode. > Regardless, note that doubling of the performance meant they > saved anywhere from $10M to $20M (5000

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Bakul Shah
> > >From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change > > requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a > > 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a > > day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the > > average, that is still only about 1

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread HyunSeog Ryu
Not very well. Especially if somebody made webpage using Microsoft tools, it doesn't work with Netscape very well. Sometimes you will see empty screen from Netscape. Sometimes javascript button will appear different location in the screen. ;< Hyun Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 200

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it. > > I found I had some netscape interop problems. Trying hitting reload a > couple of t

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Bill Moran
Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it. > > I found I had some netscape interop problems. Trying hitting reload a > couple of times. If you're us

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it. I found I had some netscape interop problems. Trying hitting reload a couple of times. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, T

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Doug Barton wrote: > > Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > >From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change > > requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a > > 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a > > day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 tim

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
Bakul Shah wrote: > > >From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change > requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a > 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a > day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the > average, that is still o

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Eric Lee Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 15:38] wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, HyunSeog Ryu wrote: > > . Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 > > Technical Case Study > >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp > > They forgot to do

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Eric Lee Green
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, HyunSeog Ryu wrote: > . Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 > Technical Case Study >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp They forgot to document reason #0 for migration to Windows 2000: Because running FreeBSD

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Sean Chittenden
I know right now that Theo Schlossnagle (from mod_backhand fame), is working on a bi-directional accept filter for keep alives that will allow Apache to pass the connection back to the kernel so that the apache child can serve a different request. scenario: 1) request comes in 2)

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Bakul Shah
>From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the average, that is still only about 1100 requests/server/

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Watson
Actually, the most fascinating part of the article for me was footnote 2: F2 - There obviously are multi-tasking/multi-process solutions that Hotmail could have leveraged under FreeBSD. However, they would require making application modifications and rework to implement. So, this was

Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread HyunSeog Ryu
Hi, folks Today I got email from Microsoft regarding hotmail migration. . Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp If you have free time, enjoy M$'s wonderful marketing power.