Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 01:27:35 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001220124280.23487-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001220004340.27283-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote:
> > >
> > > 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 tend to be stubborn ... stick with things that work even if they don't
have all the features ... INN, wu-ftpd, FreeBSD ... :) All of which tend
to get better over time, some slower then others ...
> > > 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.
Damn, forgot about that ... ya, that one I can agree with, but there has
been work done in that department also ... not quite sure what though
... better shared memory support, I believe, so that its memory footprint
is smaller ....
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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