From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 08:23:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05169 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:23:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05145 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:23:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from druber@mail.kersur.net) Received: from localhost (druber@localhost) by mail.kersur.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA18285; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:23:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:23:11 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Swartzendruber To: N cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: <981216170313.30310A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, N wrote: > >> I have a box with 20 disks, split over four controllers (yes, you guessed > >> it: a news server). Running 3.0-CURRENT from somewhere last month. Very > >> happy with FreeBSD, very unhappy with INN. > > Unhappy how? Why? > > CNFS isn't too fast. See news.software.nntp and the inn-workers@isc.org > archives, among others. Oh, you too? I gave CNFS a shot for a couple of months. Beaucoup complaints from users about horrible speed. Auto-expiration is cool, but not at this price. Two days ago, I switched back to traditional, although I'm thinking of trying timehash. Anyone have any opinions on that? > >> I think you'd be better off with 4 GB disks - less latency when you have > >> to do a *lot* of seeks (like you have to for a news swerver), but that's > >> more a question for news.software.nntp. > > That is my first choice, but that requires twice the hardware. I'll have > > to run that by management... > > On the other hand, the hardware is cheaper. You can run Diablo on 9GB > disks, but a reader machine is a different beast altogether, especially > if you use traditional spool. > > And didn't mgt. give you a bag of money to throw at the problem anyway? :-) Well, yeah, but there are limits :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message