From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 5 00:10:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA15024 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA15019 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:10:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA11952; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:11:29 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:11:27 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/obj size In-Reply-To: <199611050752.XAA15011@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > On the topic of hard disks, what are the minimum requirements to > >run a FreeBSD machine as a news server with a full news feed in terms of > >CPU, memory, HD Storage and does it have to be on several HD instead of > >multiple large capacity drives such as 9 gig drives? > > You'd serve yourself well to peruse http://www.freebsd.org/ and look > for the newsgroup archives. Joe Greco, and others, have posted much > invaluable information about running large news servers. My guess is > that you'd want to start with the isp list, then maybe hackers and/or > stable. Look specifically for posts from Joe Greco, as he has been > the most vocal on this topic, lately. I'll take a look at the newsgroup archives first and see since everyone has been giving me different answers of what the minimum is. > To get you started, he recommends many smaller drives, probably 2GB > each, striped with ccd, across multiple SCSI controllers, if possible. > NCR/Symbios 53c8xx cards or Adaptec 2940/3940 cards would work best > (until the BusLogic driver gets tagged-command-queuing, at which time > it theoretically should be as good as the other two). Hmmm, would 4 GB drives work as well in this area and do I need to get 7200rpm drives or would 5400rpm do well? The machine will already have a Seagate Elite 9 ST410800W 9.1 gig Fast Wide SCSI-2 HD with the Adaptec 2940UW controller to start with. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin