From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 2 17:24:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA19836 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 17:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA19827 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 17:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sand (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA12957; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:27:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970102201614.0099e100@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 20:16:17 -0500 To: HawkeWerks Multimedia , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Newserver recommendations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:03 PM 1/02/97 -0600, HawkeWerks Multimedia wrote: >I'm about to set up a full feed news server. I'd like any >suggestions/recommendations for setup. Partition choices, any special INN >configurations, recommended news feeders, etc. Any information would be >greatly appreciated I asked this question a few months or so ago and got many helpful responses... Basically, it boils down to this... *Dont* get one big whopper of a drive. Instead, split it up among many 4 gig hard drives, and with 2 SCSI controllers if you are pushing 8 disks... Depending on how many news readers you will have, and how big of a feed you want, get as much RAM as possible. 128Meg is a good starting point. Dont forget to compile in the MAXMEN option to take advantage of the extra RAM. Also, get 512K cache. Personally, I wouldnt bother with a Pentium Pro. Spend the money you save on a Pentium 166 or even a 133 and buy more RAM. I have 128Meg RAM, and an active file thats trimmed down to 16,000 news groups with a couple of UUCP feeds, and 2 nntp partial outbound feeds, and I hardly ever see the load average push much above .5-.6. Also, trim any dead weight out of the active file that you dont need... I am sure our customers are not much different from a typical ISP, and we get at best about 1500 different newsgroups being read in a month, with the most popular being the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* newsgroups (by a VERY, VERY large margin!) So, if you want to keep more than a couple of days around, you will need 8 gig for these groups alone! Also, the alt.binaries.warez.* take a tremendous amount of space as well. If you have never setup innd, read through the FAQ, its quite helpful... The most recent versions of INND can be found at http://www.isc.org/isc/inn.html. Also, as another person said, go through this mailing list and look at the previous postings... They are quite helpful. ---Mike