From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 29 18:38:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27945 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c243.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27747 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00564; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:37:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Kris Kirby cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Multiple News servers as one server? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:07:48 CDT." <3547B2C4.78BD06C9@airnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: <560.893900222@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kirby wrote in message ID <3547B2C4.78BD06C9@airnet.net>: > I have been pondering as to whether a cluster of FreeBSD boxen would be > able to run INN (or whatever other FreeBSD news server) and be > effective. I would assume that all the machines would have enough hard > drive space for a single server, but RAM might have to be capped at > 256M. Any thoughts? I have seen the Metacomputing site that was posted > sometime back and this has got me thinking: My ISP wants a fast news > server, and they don't want to run Solaris. They have plenty of PC-based > multi-PII systems. I'm 18 and could sure use a job... I really wouldn't recommend setting up a news cluster unless you'd worked with INN before. Having said that, you can use multiple servers in a news cluster by using XREF slaving. In this mode, one server allocates article numbers to inbound articles, and the `slaves' use the header information to preserve article numbering. Its not by any means a real clustering environment, where data and resources are shared, but it does allow you to run a large news installation on lots of small machines. The only requirement is that all the machines have the same ammount of disk space, otherwise it could get confusing. They all have full spools... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message