Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 17:47:30 -0500 (EST) From: (Mark J. Taylor) <mtaylor@cybernet.com> To: jgreco@ns.sol.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Proper FreeBSD news machine Message-ID: <XFMail.960306181309.mtaylor@cybernet.com>
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Hi Joe, hackers- We've recently gotten a full T1 link to the Internet, and along with it, a news feed. I have the T1 and news feed on a 486 DX2/66 machine, with 2 SCSI tape drives and 4 SCSI disks (all on one Adaptec 1542B controller), with 16 Mb RAM and 100 Mb of swap. I was wondering about the slow performance of innd-1.4 wrt getting the news artices- it gets about 1 article per second. This makes it kinda lag behind- it'll never get all the articles at this rate. (I'm receiving receiving ~5000 of the possible 16k+ newsgroups, and I will subscribe to more when I get the performance up). What kind of machine should I be using for the news spooler? A) 486DX2/66 fast enough? need a Pentium-133? B) how much RAM? 32 Mb enough? C) would separate SCSI busses help? (I plan to put a second 4.3Gb HD in for the rest of the news spool) D) whose SCSI card has the 'best' performance? E) newfs- what options for creating spool disks? (-i 1024, etc.) BTW- I've found FreeBSD to be very useful over the last few years. I appreciate the work that has gone into it. Thanks to WC, and all the core team! -Mark Taylor SysAdmin (only when necessary!) mtaylor@cybernet.com
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