From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 14 09:07:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA10903 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10896 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id LAA11905; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:04:11 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199608141604.LAA11905@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: INN problem To: naief@genghis_khan.dbeach.com (Network Admin) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:04:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu, begonia@itchy.serv.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Network Admin" at Aug 14, 96 11:20:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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