From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 21: 8:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB191572D for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA25074; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:05:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:05:36 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , David Fuchs , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Dnews supports suck feeds, but also takes IHAVE streaming full feeds. With > > each new release of INN, my performance fell. > > With both CNFS buffers and buffindexed, my performance using INN has > greatly improved over previous releases ... the current -stable release, > unfortunately, doesn't have all the benefits of the current -current tree, > but its kinda like FreeBSD ... if you are willing to take a chance, > -current works very well, you just have to pick when you upgrade ... > Now this is all news to me - I left INN when buckets were first introduced (and had hardcoded MMAP) > > I do not know about the current INN - but at the time it forked procs to > > handle connections etc, whereas Dnews uses threads. Less over all ram > > consumption. > > Huh? INN never forked processes to handle connections ... unless you are > referring to an innfeed process for outgoing news? nnrpd's buds! 1 per user. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message