Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com> To: Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> Cc: Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best news server config Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970916130704.28380B-100000@web1.calweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199709161715.SAA25378@indigo.ie>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> I'd be interested to hear what other people are experiencing. We're > thinking about installing a Diablo front end machine to smooth the > transatlantic flow and do some spam deletion before things get to INN. We've found INN to be fairly sluggish, or more aptly the IO mechanism combined with INN, with the current volume of news. INN just doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the current volume. We finally split off our news into two boxes, a front-end to gather all the feeds, then a reader only. The front-end is a Diablo box getting full and partial feeds from about 12 different sites. It keeps up with this volume very easily with one 9gig drive. It then passes the data to the reader box, and that box drops about 30%+ messages because it still can't keep up! Which really sucks, because our Diablo box is listed at 280 in the world at www.freenix.fr. We currently are testing a new reader box using DNEWS and inital results I must say are VERY impressive. While we don't get source for the registration price of $695.00 we get upgrades and support (via mailing list or voice if you want call Australia!). The DNEWS box keeps up hands down with the stuff coming from the Diablo box and is actually idle (feedwise) most of the time! We have about 20 gigs on the box, and the expire mech. for DNEWS is much more efficient as well, allowing us to retain groups being read alot longer. It's a real bummer having to handle support calls from users complaining about where part xxx of their alt.binarie.frogs picture is. I expect this problem to go away once we take down the INN reader and turn the DNEWS system into our default. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com President, CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.95q.970916130704.28380B-100000>