Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:35:23 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: matt@pip.net (Matt Emerson) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switch from sun to freebsd news server? Message-ID: <199602250235.UAA14521@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199602250142.UAA00358@nightfly.pip.net> from "Matt Emerson" at Feb 24, 96 08:42:29 pm
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> i may be completely mad, but i have been thinking about replacing > our current news server (sparc 10/40 running sunos 4.1.4, 64MB mem, > 8GB spool) with a pentium running freebsd. > > ideally, we'd like to use an ibm pc server 320 with a raid, and > 64MB. but after poking around the mailing list archives, i'm > not too hopeful this will be a viable option. (i stick my > tongue out at adaptec for not releasing docs on the 3985, which > is just what i need.) > > i guess i could move the news server to solaris 2.5 and use > online disksuite to do "software raid," but i'm too used to bsd > systems and would probably become very sick and puke all over my > keyboard if i was forced to deal with solaris for any extended > time period. > > so, should i shut up and be happy with the ss10? or would a > switch be reasonable? You're not completely mad. I prefer FreeBSD for news - I manage several large servers under both Solaris and FreeBSD, and I definitely feel that the FreeBSD boxes are better performers. Depending on what your usage of the machine is, I would recommend various configurations. I'm not quite clear on what the importance of a RAID subsystem would be, but FreeBSD does support disk concatenation and striping in software which gives you many of the same performance benefits. In my opinion a P100 or P133 will absolutely outperform a SS10/40 (particularly the non-cached /40's). The AHA-3940 is a really sweet controller and I recall someone saying it would not be hard to support the AHA-3985 if support for the RAID features was _not_ an issue. Seeing as how that is a sweet looking controller... :-) I just wish I could convince the folks who own the Solaris news server I manage to switch to Intel and FreeBSD :-( ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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