From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 22 19:15:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA20511 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA20489 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14906; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 21:13:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 21:13:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Joe Greco cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news In-Reply-To: <199608222150.QAA25222@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > Avoid Linux unless you are prepared to play the Incompatibility Game and > Kernel-Of-The-Day Game. I wouldn't generalize that much. Check out 'hunter.premier.net' in the Freenix1000. Linux box with a DPT SmartRAID controller. And its only on a single T1 (so was howland.reston) Linux can kick a fair amount of ass as a newsserver. I'm hoping to get the chance to push a FreeBSD box to the same level though. We're running our spool on the CCD right now, but the DPT SmartRAID stuff would be killer. Since I don't directly admin news, the admin that does will probably end up building a Linux box so that the DPT support will be there. Unless FreeBSD drivers suddenly appear... The uncertainty about the MMAP stuff for INN bothers me a bit too... Oh, CCD clue. Stripe size of 2048 is um... st00pid. We were, um... er... testing! thats it. *grin* Have a good one. (BTW, anyone looking to exchange feeds? < 150ms to news.intersurf.net prefered. Innfeed sites a plus.) | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|