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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD As News Server
Date: 08 Nov 1995 07:21:19 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: stone@thymaster.interaccess.com's message of 7 Nov 1995 18:19:18 GMT
In article <47o7v6$4pt@nntp.interaccess.com> stone@thymaster.interaccess.com (Tombstone) writes:
I am working on setting up a news server at a community college, where
I work, that will serve around 400 people.
We have a T-1 to the internet and currently use a linux box as our
main mail hub.
I plan to buy a pentium 100 and install FreeBSD on it to run a
news server.
Space is not a problem for us because we have 30 GIG of NFS
mountable space.
My question is this: Will a Pentium 100 running BSD be able to
handle this task?
I would be interested in hearing (for my own peace of mind) about
any of you who have successfully accomplished this.
Yes, many people have done just that successfully with NetBSD and
FreeBSD. You *DO*NOT* want to run your news server on NFS mounted
space, however. Usenet is constantly diddling on the drive(s). It
would both clog up your network with NFS traffic, and bog down your
news server as it was constantly waiting on remote file I/O.
Put multiple disks on the news server, and spread news out among them.
Multiple spindles help tremendously. If you want to NFS mount some of
that space, mount it *FROM* the news server *TO* your other
machine(s).
NetBSD and FreeBSD will handle this better than Linux for two reasons:
1) more robust networking code, and 2) more efficient NFS server.
Number 2 may have been addressed by now, but 1 is still being worked
on.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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