From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 15:15:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA08515 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.cybernet.com (gateway.cybernet.com [192.245.33.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08510 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from spiffy.cybernet.com (spiffy.cybernet.com [192.245.33.55]) by gateway.cybernet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA12290; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:14:25 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 17:47:30 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mtaylor@cybernet.com Organization: Cybernet Systems Corporation From: (Mark J. Taylor) To: jgreco@ns.sol.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Proper FreeBSD news machine Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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