From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 8:39:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1EB37C7F8; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1397 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:29:08 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:29:06 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: Carlton Haycock Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: news server In-Reply-To: <200007140007.UAA24622@maynard.mail.mindspring.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. The server was stable enough to run async IO on the news spool filesystems and it made a large difference in noise and drive lifetime. We had the active file on a drive out of the ccds. It worked great. Hope this helps, call if you want more 'input'. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message