Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:01:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Ben Black <black@MR.Net> To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> Cc: "Richie P. Bandales" <richieb@unet.net.ph>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960807235922.17259A-100000@galileo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960807212923.13334B-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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a full news feed that is ACTUALLY a full news feed is over 2GB/day. get rid of alt.binaries.* and you get under 1GB/day. we expire the binaries groups several times per day for this very reason. also, news machines serving lots of news need lots of RAM. lots meaning 64MB or up. all of ours have 128MB, and i know of numerous sites with a lot more. Ben black@mr.net On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Richie P. Bandales wrote: > > > i have installed a FreeBSD 2.1.5-Release successfully and i want to > > make it as a news server. i am new to FreeBSD world and i am lost for > > the moment so as where to start. i have 100MHz Pentium 6 PC with PCI bus > > and 32MB of memory and 2 x 1.2GB Quantum Fireball hard disks. is this > > enough to run a news server? if so please give me the right procedures > > and instructions as to what should i take. if anyone out there have some > > suggestions, pls i would be very glad to hear it. > > thanks in advance and let's enjoy freebsd as its best > > First of all, ask yourself these 2 questions: > > 1. Do I have enough bandwidth for running a news server. A full news feed > will not fit down a 56k. However, I believe that 128k is enough, but > pushing it. T1 or greater is ideal. > > 2. How long do I want to keep articles on my server? For a full news > feed, you should plan on having 1 GB of articles per day. So of you want > to keep your news for 12 days, 12 GB is recommended. > > Your machine should be plenty fast enough if you are just running the > average ISP operation. As for installation procedures, I'm not exactly > sure. Maybe check the online mail archive. > > Hope that helps! > > - Justin J. Ashworth > -- CS Student - Montana State University > --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU > -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu > - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth >
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