From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 13:13:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA22186 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA22137 Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id WAA01725 ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:13:34 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id WAA13444 ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:13:34 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.2/keltia-uucp-2.7) id UAA06387; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 20:11:52 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199512071911.UAA06387@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: newsserver configuration To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 20:11:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: john@gateway.net.hk, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512071225.GAA10255@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Dec 7, 95 06:25:06 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1404 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Joe Greco said: > I typically recommend a MINIMAL setup: > > 1 disk operating system/swap (1G?) > 1 disk newslib (usr/local) (500M-1G) > 1 disk var + var/spool (500M-1G) > 1 disk news overview database (15% of news spool capacity, i.e. for an 8GB > total spool, 1.2GB NOV DB) > 1 disk news spool root > 1 disk news spool alt > 1 disk news spool alt.binaries iffff you want to be serious about binaries. And I would buy two NCR cards instead of one Adaptec and divide the load on the two controllers. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Dec 3 14:34:17 MET 1995