Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:42:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: Troy Settle <troy@picus.com> Cc: FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051431110.3562-100000@thud.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <FNEMIHIFMKFBMDBKFDPBGEIMCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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We are running Dnews on 2 FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE boxes. The primary machine is a Dual P-II 450, 512MB RAM, with a DPT 3334-UW and 2 Adaptec 2940UW's (Not U2W yet). It rocks. I have to honestly say, that the box is much faster and more stable than the Solaris/Breeze (Breeze is from the same people who make Typhoon) config we had previously on the same box. The other box is a P-II 300 w 256MB RAM, a DPT 3334-UW, and an Adaptec 2940UW with 4 Medalist drives mirrored as OS/history, and 8 Quantum Fireball UW drives for spool. This machine is our text server, no binaries, and has 24 GB for spool. On the binary server, we have 4 mirrored system drives for OS and history, and we have 2 Data silos with 9 Seagate Medalist drives in each. Each silo is run off a separate Adaptec 2940, totalling 72GB of spool currently. I'm trying to migrate all of the Seagate drives off to 9GB IBM UW drives, as the DPT card and the Medalists don't really like each other... that's the reason for the extra Adaptecs. Currently, we have about 10k direct news users, and we resell services, so the machines are quite heavily abused, and they never complain. Load never ever comes even close to 1.00, machine is always responsive, and I think we could easily handle another 10-15k users without a problem. -Gary On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Troy Settle wrote: > > Hey all, > > The company I'm working for is currently using D-News on NT for usenet. I'm > a total newbie to the NNTP game, but am under the impression that Dnews > isn't a very good solution for an ISP with 20k users. > > I think I want to reccomend something like Typhoon, and I need to get some > hardware reccomendations, like single or dual CPU system? how much memory? > what kind of storage subsystem? > > I'm thinking a dual cpu box with as much RAM as it will take, and 100+ gig > of RAID or Appliance would be the way to get this started, but I need > validation on this. > > Another option might be to use MFS, and not have any fixed disks in the > machine itself, and use a network applicance for the spool. > > > Thoughts and opinions? > > -Troy > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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