Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:04:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: naief@genghis_khan.dbeach.com (Network Admin) Cc: skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu, begonia@itchy.serv.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INN problem Message-ID: <199608141604.LAA11905@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960814111336.15503C-100000@genghis_khan.dbeach.com> from "Network Admin" at Aug 14, 96 11:20:42 am
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> On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Chris Timmons wrote: > > > > > Hmmm... inn is a notorious memory hog. What is your HW config? How much > > physical memory? swap? Which release of FreeBSD are you running? > > > > Probably 96MB physical is a minimum for inn with anything near a full > > feed and a bunch of clients. > How many is bunch equal to? > > How many clients can connect at any one time and read news on a 2.1R box > which has 128MB RAM and 166Pentium CPU and obtain "OK" service > (Running INN1.4sec which is in the ports collection that came on the CD) > > Thanx in advance :) Given an appropriate disk I/O subsystem, I would probably hazard a guess of about 110, based on a client's experiences and observations. CPU is not a real factor - get a P133 or even P100. You need to be running the sharedactive patch too. Note: This does not prevent you from trying to drive 250 clients off of the box, but performance suffers and your feeds will not keep up - you lose news. ... JG
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