From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 20:36:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA20316 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:36:41 -0700 Received: from netrail.net (nathan@netrail.net [204.117.64.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA20311 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:36:37 -0700 Received: (from nathan@localhost) by netrail.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA13010; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:09:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:09:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Stratton To: Dave Andersen cc: Jim Dixon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@netrail.net Subject: Re: NEWS server In-Reply-To: <199510110053.SAA11745@terra.aros.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Dave Andersen wrote: > Our news server is a P100 with 32mb ram, an adaptec 2940 PCI controller, > etc, with news distributed across 3 drives (one for the history files, > one for just news, and one for alt.binaries). A look at top reveals: > > Cpu states: 0.4% user, 2.3% nice, 3.5% system, 3.1% interrupt, 90.7% idle > > There were 10 users reading news as of that snapshot. By *far* our > biggest limitation is in the disk area. The best thing about going > pentium is the PCI disk controllers (I've never had too much luck with > the 486 pci stuff, but perhaps we just didn't get lucky with them). The > excess processing power of the pentium is almost always sitting around > wasted. More ram and better disk controllers are probably a better bet. > Buying a P133 would be an extreme waste, especially over a p90 or 100. Yes, but how many feeds you you recive and how many do you send? We recive news from MCI, Sprint, and UUNet. And have a bunch of sites we feed news to. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite B-5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------