Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:54:54 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: Bob@buckhorn.net, David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews Message-ID: <20000121115454.B6604@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <200001202307.SAA00898@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>; from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:07:44PM -0500 References: <bob@buckhorn.net> <200001202307.SAA00898@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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-On [20000121 00:14], Mitch Collinsworth (mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) wrote: > >>All of this on a P200pro, 96mb RAM, and 50gb of ide disk. And we have >>server to spare. We run our tucows mirror on the same box. (Of course, >>I firmly beleive that 3x-stable is making all of this possible ;) > >Well since I'm preparing to build a new server soon I will consider >DNEWS, too. :-) One thing you mentioned reminds me of a question I've >been pondering. Disks. You said you're using 50 GB IDE. I have no IDE >experience (yet) but recent discussions had left me wondering if IDE was >really up to the challenge of news. I've been torn between buying new >IDE drives and throwing some existing towers filled with 2 GB SCSI drives >at it. (Yes, I have a lot of old 2 GB drives, 7 to a box.) Given the I/O >profile of news I'm not yet convinced the IDE drives would be faster. I work for an ISP. Our Current disk set-up is based on Seagate SCSI Barracuda's of about 18 GB per disk, running over Fibrechannel. This is for a full feed (20 or so peers) of about 90-100 GB a day. This large feed size is mostly due to alt.binaries, because some tests were done which came to 12-20 GB of normal usenet traffic (no alt.binaries and spam). Quite a difference. The IDE drives, IMHO, won't be able to cope with this feed. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd W/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Ain't gonna spend the rest of my Life, quietly fading away... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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