Date: Tue, 15 Apr 97 13:39:09 CDT From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Cc: kallio@cc.jyu.fi, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is someone running heavy loaded inn server? Message-ID: <199704151839.NAA13821@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970415133412.211d-100000@thelab.hub.org> from "The Hermit Hacker" at Apr 15, 97 01:35:48 pm
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> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Seppo Kallio wrote: > > Please reply if you are running a heavy loaded News server. > > > > We have Pentium Pro 200 + 128M RAM + 3*4G IBM Wide + 2940 + 3COM 590 > > > > + Linux RedHAt 4.1 !!! A good recipe for a poor news server. You don't need a PPro 200 to do news service. It will mostly sit idle. You could use more RAM and it would make much more of a difference. You don't have enough disks to make a decent spool. Why would you use Wide disks? The 2940 is nice; three NCR-810's are just as nice, and cost the same as the one 2940. Can't say anything about the 3C590; I use DEC-21x4x based stuff and am happy with it. And I'll skip the nasty comment about RedHat 4.1. > I'm running a FreeBSD 2.2 box with 96Meg of RAM and about > 13 peers, with 7 drives CCD'd together over 2 NCR SCSI controllers...and > am happy to report that other then a memory problem (hardware), that machine > is rock solid... > > Oh, its a 486DX4-100, not a PPro... I run newsfeeds.sol.net, a PPro200 / 256MB RAM / 1 NCR-810 / 2 AHA-3940 / 2 Kingston Ethernet's / 21 ST31055N's. It handles over two dozen news peers and is currently ranked the #17th most influential news server in the world. We only got the PPro200 because I couldn't get the other board I wanted... newsfeeds sits 70% idle on average, enough slop space for me to run things like rc5 :-) 1:36PM up 28 days, 4 hrs, 7 users, load averages: 2.35, 2.70, 2.70 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT jgreco p0 dors:0.0 9:23AM - w [etc] The load is artificially high because I'm running a bunch of other stuff right now... 28 days, it seems quite stable to me. It's a relatively fast box. :-) Breaking all the speed limits on the Information Superhighway, ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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