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Date:      Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:04:55 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        john@gateway.net.hk, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: newsserver configuration
Message-ID:  <199512071404.IAA10422@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199512071306.FAA19026@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Dec 7, 95 05:06:46 am

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> > I typically recommend a MINIMAL setup:
> > 
> > 1 disk operating system/swap (1G?)
> > 1 disk newslib (usr/local) (500M-1G)
> > 1 disk var + var/spool (500M-1G)
> > 1 disk news overview database (15% of news spool capacity, i.e. for an 8GB
> > total spool, 1.2GB NOV DB)
> > 1 disk news spool root
> > 1 disk news spool alt
> > 1 disk news spool alt.binaries iffff you want to be serious about binaries.
> 
> generally more spindles for the same diskspace is faster..
> 
> but with bot  few big drives
> or many middle-size ones.. think about HEAT dissipation..

didn't we just recently have a big debate over this very topic?  :-)  :-)

... Joe

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