Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:49:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: Carlton Haycock <chaycock1@mindspring.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007141148220.1930-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007141023520.90436-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Carlton Haycock wrote: > > Anyone have any recommendations on which nntp news server to run as there appear > > to be several in the ports/packages collection. > > Until alt.binaries and such got too large to handle, we used INN with > innfeed and several peering feeds to feed our readers and customers with > NNTP servers. FreeBSD with ccd support on several ultrawide Viking II > drives and lots 'o dram ran very well. > I had to switch to dnews - inn mad use the mmap in spots, and just couldnt keep up.. I mean I got more bang for the same machine with dnews - I think cause it threads internally instead of spawning instances (and using ram) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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