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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 10:42:58 -0500
From: David Clark <bigdave@ai2a.net>
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Hi Folks,

Just thought I'd pass along my ISP experience on FreeBSD. I had been
running a 486 with just 16mb of RAM as the main file server. Call me
unwise ... what a difference adding the next 16mb made. Swap space
use went to zero, "xperfmon++" shows mostly green blocks. Since we use
external terminal servers (Livingston), user ioload is minimal. Still,
a fair amount of activity on the server however. 

Other than an unresolved problem with getting a newsgroup server running,
(I know I am doing something wrong) FreeBSD has been the foundation of all
we have done. I have some LINUX advocates looking to see if they can get a
news server running on our 32MB P5-133 with 9gb of SCSI disk. I'd rather 
stay 100% FreeBSD. I've attempted to install "innd" several times. Printed
reams of docs, source, searched and read everything on the search engine.

Any ideas?
Thanks
David