From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 19 23: 5:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 23:05:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6452037B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 148cd3-0005bu-00; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:21:33 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:21:32 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: "Joel M. Baldwin" Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) In-Reply-To: <3A3FB528.3EB42BDC@outel.org> 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 Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: > Disk drive space is cheaper than CPU power. The stuff that takes up > most > of the space on your spool won't compress much anyway. I don't know what planet you are living on, but good quality, high-speed reliable and large disk storage systems are expensive. CPU power is cheap, and much easier to upgrade too. Since binaries are usually uuencoded, they will compress about 20%. That gives you about 80GB more space on a 400GB spool. Plus compression reduces the overall IO throughput by an equivelant amount. The bigger the spool, the more compression works in your favour. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message