From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 9 04:17:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17160 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 04:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17129 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 04:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id HAA22129; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:19:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970309070606.00a62310@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 07:06:06 -0500 To: "matthew c. mead" , isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? In-Reply-To: <199703090118.UAA10981@goof.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:18 PM 3/08/97 -0500, matthew c. mead wrote: > I've recently configured a 200Mhz PPro on a TYAN motherboard >with 128M ram and 45G of ultra wide scsi drives (5 9G drives >total) hanging off an Adaptec 3940UW. As many people will tell you, a) Get multiple SCSI controllers... You would be better off with 3 slightly lower grade controllers than just 1 b) Get multple HDs. You are getting beat up by the fact that you have so few (relative to your volume) HDs. The major performance issue on a news machine is seek time of the HD. I would think 10 4 gig drives-- one dedicated to the news binraries and history db; One dedicated to the .overview tree; the rest for the news spool.. Would be a lot better than a few really big HDs... c)Also, another 128Meg of RAM would help as well. If your budget is alread maxed out, at least try and separate the .overview tree on a new separate HD. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *