Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:51:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Ben Black <black@MR.Net> To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> Cc: "Richie P. Bandales" <richieb@unet.net.ph>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960808004906.17315A-100000@galileo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960807233031.14646B-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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actually, nothing beats raw partitions, as i've said numerous times here. i'm hoping to force the innd modifications out into public release rsn so everyone else can see what our news admin has cooked up. 6 million+ articles per day on a P5-120 is nothing to scoff at. we just removed soalris 2.5 from the machine because even after doubling the RAM to 128MB the performance under heavy load was significantly worse than under freebsd. Ben black@mr.net On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Ben Black wrote: > > > groups several times per day for this very reason. also, news machines > > serving lots of news need lots of RAM. lots meaning 64MB or up. all of > > ours have 128MB, and i know of numerous sites with a lot more. > > While we're on a performance note...With the way news comes through a > pipe, it is better to stripe a series of 2 or 4 GB drives rather than buy > the largest drive you can find. It is a more expensive option, but the > performance gain is usually worth it. > > - Justin J. Ashworth > -- CS Student - Montana State University > --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU > -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu > - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth >
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