From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 17 04:49:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA20545 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pahtoh.cwu.edu (root@pahtoh.cwu.edu [198.104.65.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA20540 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tahoma.cwu.edu (skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu [198.104.67.25]) by pahtoh.cwu.edu (8.6.13/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA06317; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:49:13 -0700 Received: (from skynyrd@localhost) by tahoma.cwu.edu (8.6.13/8.6.9) id EAA15727; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:49:12 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons To: Joe Greco cc: Michael Dillon , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN In-Reply-To: <199608152045.PAA14361@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 Have you played with stripe sets on any of your news servers? I have four wide 4gb cudas across two controllers which I am considering striping into a number of partitions to further balance the load. I've seen some other posts where people are doing this with 2.1.5R and innd. -Chris On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > I've been trying to help a local ISP keep their full-feed news server > > running and we are running into so many problems requiring manual > > intervention that we must be doing something terribly wrong. Could > > somebody do a rundown of the hardware and software requirements to run a > > full-feed news server with two incoming feeds (one over 10Mbps fibre ATM > > with ping times of 3 ms) and an average of 15 readers (nnrpd processes). > > software: inn1.4unoff4 (mandatory these days). if not - probably a source > of major problems. FreeBSD 2.1.5R. > hardware: one P90 with 64/96MB RAM, half a dozen good fast disks (Barracuda > or Hawk class, nothing slower than 9.5ms). Triton or Triton-II chipset. > Many other chipsets == crap. NCR PCI SCSI controller(s). > > That's a good set of ingredients for a workable (somewhat small) news > server. > > If you have more specific questions, send to me in private mail and I'll > see if I can lend a hand. I run a lot of FreeBSD- and non-FreeBSD based > news servers and I've seen a number of examples of things that work and > don't work. > > As some people have noticed, setting up a news server isn't hard, setting > one up well is still something of an art form. ;-) > > ... JG >