Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:10:27 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Brian Tao <taob@vex.net>, "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970311110932.5237A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970310150250.23210A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Michael Hancock wrote: > > ... > > I've been using -i 3072 -b 4096 -f 1024 -a 8 for non-binary newsgroups and > > the default for binary newsgroups. > > > > This way news articles on average will fit in a block. > > You always want maxcontig to beigger than 8. It has nothing to do with > file allocation, only have many sectors are transfered at once to the > driver. And the magic number is ____.
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