From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 15:35:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43CC37C28D for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrestc@workhorse.iMach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12090; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:30:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:30:07 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Christian Jachmann Cc: Carroll Kong , "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Off-topic News: WAS: Re: 3.4-Stable crashes..(heavy diskio+networking) In-Reply-To: <38D954BC.4D49C9FA@gigabell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Christian Jachmann wrote: > > >I'm running 3.4 Stable here, machine is a central newsfeed. > > >Machine is running INN 2.2.2 (latest Snapshot) > > >Network thrououtput is several hundred Gigabytes a Day. > > >We do have about 150 streaming connections on this site. I know this doesn't solve your problem but have you looked at the highwind products (Typhoon and Cyclone/Breeze)? See http://bcandid.com/products/index.html Although I haven't run a news server for a while now, when I did, these products saved us literally hundreds if not thousands of dollars of hardware. We went from a load average of 10+ on a $10,000 Sparc to <.1 on the same hardware switching from INN to cyclone. It looks like INN has implemented some of the functionality which make these products sooooo fast, but it might still be worth a look. FWIW, the box "average uptime" also went from typically a day or so with INN to weeks or months with cyclone. The OS would croak about once a day with INN, quite frequently requiring a manual fsck -y. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message