From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 21 02:37:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA00670 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 02:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kremvax.demos.su (kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA00663 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 02:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kremvax.demos.su (8.6.13/D) from 0@sinbin.demos.su [194.87.0.31] with ESMTP id NAA29591; Wed, 21 May 1997 13:32:44 +0400 Received: by sinbin.demos.su id NAA03902; (8.6.12/D) Wed, 21 May 1997 13:32:32 +0400 From: bag@sinbin.demos.su (Alex G. Bulushev) Message-Id: <199705210932.NAA03902@sinbin.demos.su> Subject: Re: News Server SCSI Problems (SUMMARY) In-Reply-To: from "Christoffer Walther" at "May 21, 97 09:50:20 am" X-ELM-OSV: (Our standard violations) no-mime=1; no-hdr-encoding=1 To: chrw@proventum.net (Christoffer Walther) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:32:32 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi all, I just signed on to this list, I had serious trouble > with my new server as well, crashed 2-3 times every week. I sincerely > hope the bug in the Adaptec driver has been fixed in the 2.2.2 release :) > > I got one question: My new server setup is a digital prioris pentium > 90mhz, with 3 x 4 giga scisi disk for the news spool, 1 giga for the os > and 80mb RAM. At present I got about 4-5 concurrent news clients, but > I expect to get about 10 times that sometime near future. Whatkinda setup > is needed for that? How much RAM should I calculate for each news client, > the server itself etc? I would be happy if some can give me a brief > outline of system requirements, since I am pretty new to running a > news server. we know about bug in DEC prioris XL using Mercury chipset we use one of this box, and found that PCI dont work properly ... systems reboot's without diagnostic ... specialy when PCI ethernet in use ... fxp0 dont work with Mercury on 100Mbps ... use EISA in this case ... Alex. > > Regards, > > Christoffer Walther > Unix Administrator > PROVENTUM > cwalther@proventum.net > >