Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:58:58 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) Message-ID: <20000106115858.A8244@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> References: <andrew@pubnix.net> <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:47:55AM -0500, Thus Spake Mitch Collinsworth: > >> Personally I'm waiting for everyone to stop passing the > >> alt.binaries.warez.* groups, > >> doing that alone would probably drop news traffic by 70%... > >> All in favor say AYE! > >I don't think that will solve the problem, look at > >alt.binaries.pictures as more the sources of the traffic. > Heh. I stopped taking alt.binaries.* and reduced expire on alt.* > with some exceptions and my spool still fits on 2 2GB Baracudas. > And I'm still keeping 7 days or more of most big-8 groups. This is > a 7-year-old server. News is still not all that big if you get rid > of the junk that just doesn't belong there. > BTW, is 7 years of full-time news without a failure a record for disk > longevity? Well on a V.3 system (Esix 5.3.2) I ran for 7 years 2 months and 2 weeks before the ESDI controller failed - roughly mid-August 1990 thru mid-October 1997 - at which time I moved to a new motherboard (retired the 486) and FreeBSD 2.2.2. The old Radio Shack 16 ran as a node from 1986 to 1990. Once the daily flow moved to over 10 MB a day it was time to upgrade. Gawd. I think we have binaries that big now! Ran only comp and a few others. Most of the nodes in this area dropped alt by the early 1990s. The original 'bilver' would appear several times in the top-500 site list and for a long time in the top 1000. Amazing what you could do with a pair of World Blazers cranking along about 22kbps, when the rest of the world could barely hanled 9600. Bill -- Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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