From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 19:59: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat200.60.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.200.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDB714F2C for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA72144; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:53:28 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:53:28 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Steve Hovey Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , David Fuchs , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > 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. With both CNFS buffers and buffindexed, my performance using INN has greatly improved over previous releases ... the current -stable release, unfortunately, doesn't have all the benefits of the current -current tree, but its kinda like FreeBSD ... if you are willing to take a chance, -current works very well, you just have to pick when you upgrade ... > 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. Huh? INN never forked processes to handle connections ... unless you are referring to an innfeed process for outgoing news? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message