Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 01:27:35 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001220124280.23487-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001220004340.27283-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > > 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 ... > > > > Now this is all news to me - I left INN when buckets were first introduced > (and had hardcoded MMAP) I tend to be stubborn ... stick with things that work even if they don't have all the features ... INN, wu-ftpd, FreeBSD ... :) All of which tend to get better over time, some slower then others ... > > > 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? > > nnrpd's buds! 1 per user. Damn, forgot about that ... ya, that one I can agree with, but there has been work done in that department also ... not quite sure what though ... better shared memory support, I believe, so that its memory footprint is smaller .... 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
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