From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 26 09:04:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21269 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA21264 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17004; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:02:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:02:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Joe Greco cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news In-Reply-To: <199608261517.KAA00313@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 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 Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > That's nice. Still, I see a lot of people struggling to get Linux to work > as a news server... True, Linux does give you more opportunity to shoot yourself in the foot, but that is characteristic of the PC platform in general. > > And its only on a single T1 (so was howland.reston) > > Howland? On a single T1? I can ask Enger but I doubt it. *shrug* I think it was a Sparc5 or Sparc10 at his house. Its on some horking Ultra up at Erols now... > Howland had continually rated high on Reid's Top 1000 because back in the > days when ANS was _THE_ Internet backbone, it was the only major news > system that was connected directly to ANS and was able to take advantage > of the ANS backbone's excellent connectivity and 45mbps rates. At least, > that's how _I_ remember it. :-) http://www.freenix.fr/top1000/ > Since Howland has recently moved, that may change somewhat, but I don't > buy that it was on a T1. Heh... hunter.premier.net was, and they're rated #4 (would be #3 if GBL hadn't messed up their path data) > > We're running our spool on the CCD right now, but the DPT SmartRAID stuff > > would be killer. Since I don't directly admin news, the admin that does > > will probably end up building a Linux box so that the DPT support will be > > there. Unless FreeBSD drivers suddenly appear... > > I'd like that, although going with a real RAID is a possibility too. Um... Isn't the DPT stuff "real raid"? Now you can go with an external Mylex RAID box but the DPT stuff works just as well. Up to 3 UltraFastSCSI channels per controller. > I generally don't bother with RAID's for news and my performance is pretty > good. :-) (see: newspump.sol.net) Freenix as of July says: 59 2.96 newspump.sol.net Which isn't bad. :) Can I get a feed from you? > > The uncertainty about the MMAP stuff for INN bothers me a bit too... > > Why bother using it? I've not seen a noticeable difference either way, > and finally decided it wasn't worth the "uncertainty" (although in many > months of operations, I saw few crashes that I attributed to it). Cool. I'll pass that along. > > Oh, CCD clue. Stripe size of 2048 is um... st00pid. We were, um... er... > > testing! thats it. *grin* > > > > Have a good one. > > > > (BTW, anyone looking to exchange feeds? < 150ms to news.intersurf.net > > prefered. Innfeed sites a plus.) > > I don't even see you on the Freenix Top 1000 list :-) Yep, our newsserver was sucking really bad until recently. We were down a disk and using a really old 2.0.5 SNAP release. This has changed. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|