Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:32:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Colin Ryan <drop@lglobal.com> To: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net> Cc: dror@dnai.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to solve the news server problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.961005133029.29918C-100000@presence.lglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <199610050949.LAA07506@shadows.aeon.net>
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On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, mika ruohotie wrote: Dont' mean to sound highbrow or anything as I'm not doing anything special with news but wasn't there a large discussion about these "sucking feeds" a while back. Seems to me that solutions exsist but It depends on the situations like how many/who are you crossfeeding to etc etc. > > Hi folks, > > 3000 users I've never seen more than 30 concurrent readers > > on our news server. Our server runs on : > > 128 Meg memory > > 4 Quantum XP34300W (Fast wide 4Gig) Yes, I know 8 2 Gigs would be better. > > Pentium 133 > > > > Response time is fine, but not spectacular. I suspect that the next > > step for speedup would be for us to have separate reader and feed > > machines. Right now this machine connect to 4 other ISPs to send > > and receive news. > > even machine like that cant handle news too well nowadays? outch. since i > was planning running news on machine with about 10-12 2gig ultra wide > drives, with 256megs of ram and p166 or pro200... but it seems to me > that might be futile... > > > I believe that my news server is spending most of its time receiving, > > writing to disk, organizing, and then removing files that NONE OF > > MY USERS WILL EVER LOOK AT. To put it another way, the reason that > > indeed. > > how about running the news on sgi challenge s? > > i've heard there's news software available for sgi machiens that actually > doesnt neccessarry keep the unread groups on disk, when someone accesses > those groups, the software grabs those groups from the servers feeding > the machine... am i right? anyone more knowledge about this? > > is there anyone familiar with the challenge s machines? the price doesnt > sound too bad, since it's only a little more than pro200, and has faster > bus and stuff... i could think the first place where the pc hardware loses > most _is_ the "slow" bus speed, coz you can drag only 132mbytes of stuff > cross the ethernets (possibly multiple interfaces) and scsi's (again > possibly multiple interfaces) > > > mickey > -- > mika ruohotie mika@aeon.net net/sys admin > -------------------------------\\|!|//------------------------------- | Colin P. Ryan \!/ Cyber- | | Local GlobalAccess Inc.....More than Just a Provider! Rights | | 320 1/2 Bloor St. W. Toronto. ON NOW !! | | e:drop@lglobal.com Phone: (416)515-7400| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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