From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 8:50:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0320C37CEA2; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA51561; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:49:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:49:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: James Wyatt Cc: Carlton Haycock , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: news server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Carlton Haycock wrote: > > Anyone have any recommendations on which nntp news server to run as there appear > > to be several in the ports/packages collection. > > Until alt.binaries and such got too large to handle, we used INN with > innfeed and several peering feeds to feed our readers and customers with > NNTP servers. FreeBSD with ccd support on several ultrawide Viking II > drives and lots 'o dram ran very well. > I had to switch to dnews - inn mad use the mmap in spots, and just couldnt keep up.. I mean I got more bang for the same machine with dnews - I think cause it threads internally instead of spawning instances (and using ram) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message