From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 8 20:23:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24083 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA24061; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA28301; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 14:52:50 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703090422.OAA28301@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? In-Reply-To: <199703090322.WAA11753@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at "Mar 8, 97 10:22:40 pm" To: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 14:52:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, tom@sdf.com, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk matthew c. mead stands accused of saying: > > > > I really do suggest using -o noatime,async > > on mounted news partitions too (for 2.2) > > This system is a 2.1.6 installation. Do these > recommendations change based on that? Thanks for the replies! No async support in 2.1.6, but I believe that noatime is supported. You should _really_ go search the archives of the -hackers list for postings from Joe Greco regarding big news servers. In particular, you are using (probably) slow disks, your layout is likely to be wrong, and you don't have enough SCSI busses 8) > Matthew C. Mead -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[