Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:17:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> To: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWS server Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951010231525.12685E-100000@netrail.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951010164007.26965A-100000@vbc.net>
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On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Jim Dixon wrote: > 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? We have a 1 gig Coner, and a 4.2 gig Segate Hawk. I do not think our problem is CPU, but IO. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite B-5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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