Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:13:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com> To: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to solve the news server problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961005080737.1636B-100000@web1.calweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199610050949.LAA07506@shadows.aeon.net>
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> how about running the news on sgi challenge s? hehe. That cracks me up. We started our ISP with an SGI. Now it's called boatanchor.calweb.com for good reasons. It's NFS stuff does not get along with Freebsd and it barely handles the 64 businesses we have on it. > is there anyone familiar with the challenge s machines? the price doesnt > sound too bad, since it's only a little more than pro200, and has faster The last P6Pro/200 I got was about $3k. This was with 128megs ram, 2 gig fast/wide, dual ethernet controller, etc.... The challenge S is considerably more then that, and make sure you get the correct software options. By the time you're done getting what you need you'll be way over $10k. > bus and stuff... i could think the first place where the pc hardware loses > most _is_ the "slow" bus speed, coz you can drag only 132mbytes of stuff "slow"? The PCI bus speed is quite adequate. 132mbyte across a 10mb ethernet would be a neat trick. Our 10baseT backbone, with nearly 5000 subscribers is only about 14% utilized during peak. The PCI buses or the ethernet backbone are not a bottleneck! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com President, CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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