Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:29:37 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Brian Tao <taob@vex.net> Cc: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>, "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970311072014.3663A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970310160713.5828C-100000@vex.net>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > > But isn't choosing block and fragment sizes very important as well? > > I would imagine so, but the default values chosen by newfs appear > to work quite well. I just bump up the number of inodes reserved on a > news spool filesystem; everything else uses the default values. I've been using -i 3072 -b 4096 -f 1024 -a 8 for non-binary newsgroups and the default for binary newsgroups. This way news articles on average will fit in a block. Regards, Mike Hancock
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