From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 7 09:56:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA03325 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 09:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (news@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA03313 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 09:56:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (sendmail) id BAA08340 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 01:56:31 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: 8 Dec 1995 01:56:26 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <4a79sa$84f$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: , <199512071225.GAA10255@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: newsserver configuration Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) writes: [...] >News Rule 1: You would rather have LOTS of slightly slower, smaller disks >than a few large, fast drives. This fact has been lost on so many people. >If I had a nickel for every time I've told somebody this and they've ignored >me, I could be Bill Gates. Heh. And I get a good giggle when you post your pretty damn good news throughput stats on the news admin newsgroups when people are having bottleneck problems on their "super fast, high performance servers", and their jaws drop and they ask you what you're running... :-) It's especially interesting after there's been a long argument on how important it is to have a "big, mega fast disk" (hoho). And here comes Joe, on his "lowly" pentium FreeBSD box with run-of-the-mill disks showing impressive numbers beating the $30,000 hardware.. :-) Bang! shoots their argument to bits.. :-) (Well, maybe my memory of the most recent "go round" is a little exaggerated, but you get the idea.. :-) -Peter >... Joe >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net >Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847