From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 19:35:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA18095 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:35:19 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA18089 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:35:14 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id WAA22652; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 22:23:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 22:23:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: NEWS server To: Nathan Stratton cc: freebsd-isp@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. > 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? huh! are you running a full usenet feed?? even my dinky 386dx40 16mb box handles 20,000 articles a day while doing all the mail and anon-ftp services for this site. can you provide more information please. > > > Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. > Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite B-5 > Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 > WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346