Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 04:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN Message-ID: <Pine.VUL.3.91.960817044508.15325D-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608152045.PAA14361@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Have you played with stripe sets on any of your news servers? I have four wide 4gb cudas across two controllers which I am considering striping into a number of partitions to further balance the load. I've seen some other posts where people are doing this with 2.1.5R and innd. -Chris On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > I've been trying to help a local ISP keep their full-feed news server > > running and we are running into so many problems requiring manual > > intervention that we must be doing something terribly wrong. Could > > somebody do a rundown of the hardware and software requirements to run a > > full-feed news server with two incoming feeds (one over 10Mbps fibre ATM > > with ping times of 3 ms) and an average of 15 readers (nnrpd processes). > > software: inn1.4unoff4 (mandatory these days). if not - probably a source > of major problems. FreeBSD 2.1.5R. > hardware: one P90 with 64/96MB RAM, half a dozen good fast disks (Barracuda > or Hawk class, nothing slower than 9.5ms). Triton or Triton-II chipset. > Many other chipsets == crap. NCR PCI SCSI controller(s). > > That's a good set of ingredients for a workable (somewhat small) news > server. > > If you have more specific questions, send to me in private mail and I'll > see if I can lend a hand. I run a lot of FreeBSD- and non-FreeBSD based > news servers and I've seen a number of examples of things that work and > don't work. > > As some people have noticed, setting up a news server isn't hard, setting > one up well is still something of an art form. ;-) > > ... JG >help
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