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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16867 comp.os.linux.advocacy:2507 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.ppp.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: Best platform for INN server? Message-ID: <1995Mar3.140152.14952@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: The Internet References: <199503020229.SAA11325@kitana.org> <MICHAELV.95Mar1233040@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3j657b$j2d@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 14:01:52 GMT Lines: 30 rmk@tiac.net (Rick Kelly) writes: >Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: >: In article <199503020229.SAA11325@kitana.org> sysop@kitana.org (JL Gomez) writes: >: I'm happily running a 2GB newspool server running with 16MB of RAM using >: INN. >: I can say that Linux's disk cache/buffer strategy does help matters. :) >: Compared to what? >Apple PRODOS. Linux does not write out metainformation for filesystems synchronously (Note: of course normal write if buffered in every UNIX, but metainformation like inodes is not). That means performance for writing large files is equivalent, but writing many small files like it is the case for news partitions is much faster, up to a factor of 3 on my SunOS box. As far as I know Linux is the only UNIX-like system that has this as default, but in FreeBSD you have a mount option for this and in SunOS you can change even a mounted filesystem with an unducumented ioctl(). I usually do this for news partitions on stable machines. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Private email Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Fax +4940 522 8536. No NeXTMail!