From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 06:06:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA13885 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 06:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA13866 Thu, 7 Dec 1995 06:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id IAA10422; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:04:56 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199512071404.IAA10422@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: newsserver configuration To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:04:55 -0600 (CST) Cc: john@gateway.net.hk, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512071306.FAA19026@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Dec 7, 95 05:06:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > > generally more spindles for the same diskspace is faster.. > > but with bot few big drives > or many middle-size ones.. think about HEAT dissipation.. didn't we just recently have a big debate over this very topic? :-) :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847