From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 16 09:43:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23386 for current-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23355 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA05431 ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:42:12 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA03713 ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:42:37 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA07110; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:34:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199604160634.IAA07110@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Suggestions? To: somebody@cu-online.com (Somebody) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:34:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Somebody at "Apr 15, 96 02:35:35 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1889 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Somebody said: > what version of FreeBSD I want to use. I am think of going with BSD-STABLE > but I am not sure if this the best decision. This machine is a P133 with ^^^^^ You don't really need a P133 for this. > 48M of ram and Buslogic 946C and a 4.2G Atlas Pro and 1G EIDE Drive for ^^^ Maybe not enough if you have a big enough feed. I'd suggest bying 2x 2.2 GB disk or 4x 1 GB disks and spread the spool & news dir & overview data over all the disks (maybe with ccd). Get rid of the IDE disk. Go all SCSI. IDE is evil. > the base OS and it will be running INN1.4unoff3 or unoff2. Take unoff4 and innfeed (see into news.software.nntp for details). > This machine will at first act as a newsfeeder for my other > locations and other news exchangers. Better take a P90 with 64 MB than a P133 with 48... Memory is more important than CPU power. My 2 ECUS^H^H^H^HEUROS. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #12: Sun Apr 14 16:01:04 MET DST 1996