From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 16:45:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA10564 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:45:59 -0700 Received: from vbc.net (jdd@vbc.net [204.137.192.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA10558 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:45:54 -0700 Received: (from jdd@localhost) by vbc.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA27180; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:45:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:45:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dixon To: Nathan Stratton cc: freebsd-isp@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWS server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Nathan Stratton wrote: > I am using a 486 DX4 100 with 64 Meg ram running FreeBSD as our news > erver. Thsi box has been slow and crashes a lot. So this is the question. We are just about to build a news machine to just that spec, so your problems are of considerable interest to us. Our experience has been that 486-100s on news machines hover around the 85% idle level and that their performance is limited by the bandwidth to the disks. What sort of drives are you running and how are they set up? > Should I upgrade to a P133 with 128 Megs ram or a Sparc 5 110 MHZ with > 128 megs ram. If I go with the Sparc can I run FreeBSD on it? These may be the wrong questions. -- Jim Dixon jdd@vbc.net VP Engineering VBCnet West Inc 408 971 2682 fax 408 971 2684