From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 6:16: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BD014F28 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 06:16:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA60224; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:16:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:15:56 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: David Fuchs , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews In-Reply-To: <20000121114445.A6604@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > But Dnews and INN comparisations aren't really fair. Last time I looked > at DNews it did more of a job as per leafnode(+), only fetching those > groups which are read. INN is a full fledged newsserver as per > Typhoon/Breeze class. Dnews supports suck feeds, but also takes IHAVE streaming full feeds. With each new release of INN, my performance fell. I do not know about the current INN - but at the time it forked procs to handle connections etc, whereas Dnews uses threads. Less over all ram consumption. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message