From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 14 15:12:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA09860 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:12:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA09853 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabal.io.org (cabal.io.org [198.133.36.103]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA09194 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:12:36 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.7.4/8.7.4) id RAA04768; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:12:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:12:36 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Matt Emerson cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switch from sun to freebsd news server? In-Reply-To: <199602250142.UAA00358@nightfly.pip.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 Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Matt Emerson wrote: > > i may be completely mad, but i have been thinking about replacing > our current news server (sparc 10/40 running sunos 4.1.4, 64MB mem, > 8GB spool) with a pentium running freebsd. How many readers and feeds do you expect to handle? A P133 with 64MB and multiple disk controllers and spindles should be able to handle 100 readers and about a dozen feeds without too much trouble. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"