From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 22:54:16 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 3EED61553C for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:54:13 -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 BAA73058; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 01:27:35 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 01:27:35 -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 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