- From: Rohit Khare <Rohit@KnowNow.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 14:42:19 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
- Cc: <fork@kragen.dnaco.net>, <decentralization@egroups.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>, "Radio Userland" <radio-userland@egroups.com>, "SOAP" <SOAP@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM>, <xml-rpc@egroups.com>, "Jeffrey Zeldman" <jeffrey@zeldman.com>, <stutzbforked@hotmail.com>, "Bob Atkinson" <bobatk@Exchange.Microsoft.com>, <mohsena@microsoft.com>, <billg@microsoft.com>, frystyk@microsoft.com
At 8:46 AM -0800 12/27/00, Dave Winer wrote: >First, I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email. As do I -- but the issue is simply that urgent. In fact, it's crippled the performance of Windows 2000 as well, since that configuration starves Apache+Perl as well. Our startup depends on local HTTP microservers, just like UPnP, Napster, Gnutella, and a slew of other schemes. When I can put two implementations side by side and see 200 SOAP transactions per second on Win2K with a separate server on the LAN plummet to 4 events per second with the server on the same CPU, we have a problem. I can also confirm Dave's Mac experience. I am hopeful, though. We've seen Explorer grow into a great product, and I know at least David Stutz can attest to what we've been able to inspire it to. We just haven't had a generation of developers ship "applications" as local proxy servers. When we make it clear how useful this technique is, we can shut up and let our customers do the asking. I would be glad to extend any assistance we can in testing and resolving these issues. Thanks, Rohit Khare CEO, KnowNow Inc. 2730 Sand Hill Road Suite 150 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 561-0246 (direct) (206) 465 4936 (cell) >I'm hoping enough Microsoft people see this so that the problem is >fixed, it's an important area for future Web development, esp in >regards to P2P apps, where the server and the client are often >running on the same machine. > >***Concise statement of the problem > >When accessing a server on the local machine, MSIE/Mac doesn't yield >enough time to allow the server to do its processing. The net result >is a glacial pace, when it should be lightning fast. The addition of >a single system call to the loop that's waiting for a response from >the server would probably cure the problem. > >This problem isn't present on MSIE/Win or Netscape/Mac, it only >effects Mac MSIE users. Our only recourse for people who use our new >"desktop website" software on the Mac will be to switch to Netscape, >which doesn't have the problem. I'm not going to suggest that they >switch to Windows, I'll let Microsoft do that. ;-> > >More discussion is here. > ><http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/stories/storyReader$4389>http://rad >iodiscuss.userland.com/stories/storyReader$4389 > >Dave > >PS: I don't like the banging on pots and pans approach to getting >attention of vendors. But Microsoft is not moving in browsers, esp >on the Mac, and if this is what they respond to, so be it.
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