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From: Osma Ahvenlampi
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:38

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In article <4h731n$bj5@news.uni-c.dk> c948374@oersted.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen) writes:
>He wanted an *Amiga* IRC server, not a Unix one. Read the posting
>again. Unix HTTP servers also rely on fork(), yet we have Amiga HTTP
>server software, and several web servers are run on Amigas.

ircd is a mess. You'd have to be a real masochist to want to rewrite
it so that it'd work without fork().. Whereas a HTTP server is a
pretty simple thing, and any decent server these days does NOT rely on
fork(), because that's too slow.

>??? They seem to be overloaded. More servers would make it possible to
>distribute the load.

Yeah, whatever. Now consider how much extra load a netsplit/netjoin
exerts on the other servers (suddenly 2000 clients log off and
rejoin). Then imagine how often a stupid 040-based server would die
under the load when Pentiums and AlphaStations can't keep up.

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Date: 01 Mar 1996 19:38:35 +0200
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