From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 23:43:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA14990 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 23:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riverside.mr.net (root@Riverside.MR.Net [137.192.2.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14985; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 23:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galileo.mr.net by riverside.mr.net (8.7.5/SMI-4.1.R931202) id BAA23110; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 01:43:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by galileo.mr.net (8.7.5/8.7.2) id BAA17420; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 01:43:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 01:43:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Ben Black To: Gary Palmer cc: Justin Ashworth , "Richie P. Bandales" , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news server In-Reply-To: <422.839485546@orion.webspan.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 well, i've posted rough benchmarks to the list a couple of times. P5-120, 64MB RAM, 2940 SCSI (NOT wide SCSI), SMC 100Mb Enet simulatenous innxmits to 75 sites resulting in over 6 million articles fed per day. load average never exceeds 3 and is usually under 2. the use of raw disks in a cyclic manner means that expire is never run on machines with these mods. we can sustain over 200 articles/sec between machines using raw disks and have seen bursts over 400/sec. we upgraded the machine to 128MB RAM to stop solaris from swapping so much, but 64MB was (is) plenty using freebsd. as i said, i will get the code released as quickly as i can. on a side note, did you know that www.be.com is running freebsd? Ben black@mr.net On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Ben Black wrote in message ID > : > > actually, nothing beats raw partitions, as i've said numerous times > > here. i'm hoping to force the innd modifications out into public release > > rsn so everyone else can see what our news admin has cooked up. > > Any jucy titbits you can throw out? :-) > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info >