Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:45:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net> To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWS server Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951010164007.26965A-100000@vbc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951010190124.5841A-100000@netrail.net>
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On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Nathan Stratton wrote: > I am using a 486 DX4 100 with 64 Meg ram running FreeBSD as our news > erver. Thsi box has been slow and crashes a lot. So this is the question. We are just about to build a news machine to just that spec, so your problems are of considerable interest to us. Our experience has been that 486-100s on news machines hover around the 85% idle level and that their performance is limited by the bandwidth to the disks. What sort of drives are you running and how are they set up? > Should I upgrade to a P133 with 128 Megs ram or a Sparc 5 110 MHZ with > 128 megs ram. If I go with the Sparc can I run FreeBSD on it? These may be the wrong questions. -- Jim Dixon jdd@vbc.net VP Engineering VBCnet West Inc 408 971 2682 fax 408 971 2684
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