From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 6: 1: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398251527C for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:01:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02474 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:00:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:00:59 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912201400.PAA02474@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Looking for INN advice Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'll have to set up a newsserver, using FreeBSD 3.4 and INN. The spool will be ~ 20 Gbyte, almost no binary groups, only very few alt.* groups, and at peak hours there won't be more than ~ 100 readers in parallel, I guess, so it's not a very big server. However, this is the first time that I have to set up a news server, and I'm concerned about stability and performance. I've heard that there were issues with INN and mmap() under FreeBSD -- have these problems been solved? Is it safe to run INN 2.2.2 on FreeBSD 3.4? By the way, I intend to use CNFS to improve performance. Does it make sense to use Soft-updates in this case? (I've also heard that reader performance is very slow in INN 2.2.x if CNFS is used, because of the format of the overview DB... The problem is supposed to be fixed in 2.3, but 2.3 is still "alpha quality" and not for production... *sigh*) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message