From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 10:28:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA02954 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02891 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <30996-4330>; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:29:32 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:29:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: David Clark cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM helps In-Reply-To: <199604241542.KAA01017@ai2a.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, David Clark wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just thought I'd pass along my ISP experience on FreeBSD. I had been > running a 486 with just 16mb of RAM as the main file server. Call me > unwise ... what a difference adding the next 16mb made. Swap space > use went to zero, "xperfmon++" shows mostly green blocks. Since we use > external terminal servers (Livingston), user ioload is minimal. Still, > a fair amount of activity on the server however. > > Other than an unresolved problem with getting a newsgroup server running, > (I know I am doing something wrong) FreeBSD has been the foundation of all > we have done. I have some LINUX advocates looking to see if they can get a > news server running on our 32MB P5-133 with 9gb of SCSI disk. I'd rather > stay 100% FreeBSD. I've attempted to install "innd" several times. Printed > reams of docs, source, searched and read everything on the search engine. > > Any ideas? > Thanks > David This doesn't belong on bugs@freebsd.org, as it doesn't contain a bug report. I'm following up to questions@freebsd.org. As for inn, what exactly is happening? Tom