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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 10 Jun 1994 20:32:23 +0930
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References: <1994Jun7.181553.27405@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
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In article <1994Jun7.181553.27405@uk.ac.swan.pyr>, Alan Cox (iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr) wrote:
> In article <2t0rno$c8p@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >I'm running System V on a 386/16 in 4MB and a 70 MB hard disk and getting a
> >News feed.
>
> And there are weirdos doing large newsfeeds on 1Mb 286's runnign
> coherent and even using Minix on XT's.
I used to run a 7Mb per day newsfeed for fifteen downstream UUCP sites on
my Amiga 500 (7.14MHz 68000, 4.5Mb RAM, 52Mb SCSI hard disk) running MINIX.
The single-threaded filesystem thrashed it like buggery -- News batching
would slow uucico sessions unbearably, because only one process could
do filesystem I/O at a time (and tty I/O counts as filesystem I/O).
'twas slightly slower than my current FreeBSD setup, anyway :-)
- mark
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