Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:10:37 -0500 From: Andrew <andrew@pubnix.net> To: Steve Kaczkowski <steve@inc.net> Cc: "Robert J. Adams" <radams@siscom.net>, "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) Message-ID: <387423CC.CA150435@pubnix.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051448500.3562-100000@thud.tbe.net> <02b301bf57dc$d0ffa620$3102fbd1@siscom.net> <3874221E.DBD45CDB@inc.net>
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Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > "Robert J. Adams" wrote: > > > > Gary, > > > > Not sure if I agree with you. With the size of news today (we bring in about > > 81-90G/day) it would take a LOT of 9gig drives to store it for a week. We > > have been using 50gig barracudas (about 24 per server, soon to be 32) in a > > RAID 0+1 setup. Yea, we loose half the space w/ this setup due to the raid, > > but it's lightening fast and fully redundant. I'm just waiting for IBM to > > start shipping the damn 72G drives.. then again.. we kinda go crazy with > > news. > > Personally I'm waiting for everyone to stop passing the > alt.binaries.warez.* groups, > doing that alone would probably drop news traffic by 70%... > > All in favor say AYE! I don't think that will solve the problem, look at alt.binaries.pictures as more the sources of the traffic. I decided to nuke our news server and outsource news to commercial news provider and am using nntpcache instead. What a difference!!! Bandwidth galore and way less load on the system! Definately worth it! > > > :) > > -- > Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD > steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 > http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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