Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:24:16 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/obj size Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961104232117.13095X-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <E0vKfIV-0001S6-00@rover.village.org>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > : On the topic of hard disks, what are the minimum requirements to > : run a FreeBSD machine as a news server with a full news feed in terms of > : CPU, memory, HD Storage and does it have to be on several HD instead of > : multiple large capacity drives such as 9 gig drives? > > You *REALLY* want to have the fastest net connect possible. T1 is > entry point for a full feed. You need to have at least 15G of disk, > but 25G is better if you want any kind of expire on it. I wouldn't > try it with less than 64M or 96M of physical memory and a P133. Well, we have a T1 already and trying to get another machine to act as the news server.... Current 4 machines are all Dual Pentium P5-100 with 128meg RAM and 9 gig Disk space. > For less than a full feed, less will and can do :-) So the new machine will probably be better but are you sure it takes 15G of disk but how long expires are we talking about? and also, anyone know what Walnut Creek/FreeBSD has for their storage for the newsserver? Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
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