From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 6 9: 1:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net [129.250.36.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E753F15062 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 126GHr-0005Gq-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:01:23 +0000 Received: from [157.238.16.49] (helo=bilver.magicnet.net) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 126GHm-0004Di-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:01:18 +0000 Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA08258 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:58:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:58:58 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) Message-ID: <20000106115858.A8244@bilver.magicnet.net> References: <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Organization: Vermillion Consulting Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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