From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 4 23:53:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13978 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA13950; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id XAA13918; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA15011; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:52:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611050752.XAA15011@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Veggy Vinny cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/obj size In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 04 Nov 96 22:45:45 -0800. Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 23:52:45 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On the topic of hard disks, what are the minimum requirements to >run a FreeBSD machine as a news server with a full news feed in terms of >CPU, memory, HD Storage and does it have to be on several HD instead of >multiple large capacity drives such as 9 gig drives? You'd serve yourself well to peruse http://www.freebsd.org/ and look for the newsgroup archives. Joe Greco, and others, have posted much invaluable information about running large news servers. My guess is that you'd want to start with the isp list, then maybe hackers and/or stable. Look specifically for posts from Joe Greco, as he has been the most vocal on this topic, lately. To get you started, he recommends many smaller drives, probably 2GB each, striped with ccd, across multiple SCSI controllers, if possible. NCR/Symbios 53c8xx cards or Adaptec 2940/3940 cards would work best (until the BusLogic driver gets tagged-command-queuing, at which time it theoretically should be as good as the other two). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------