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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!bhi.com!jasmine!bwherry From: bwherry@bhi.com (bradley g wherry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD As News Server Date: 11 Nov 1995 01:34:04 GMT Organization: Bolder Heuristics Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <480uic$3kd@yggdrasil.bhi.com> References: <47o7v6$4pt@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jasmine.bhi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tombstone (stone@thymaster.interaccess.com) wrote: : Hello! : I plan to buy a pentium 100 and install FreeBSD on it to run a : news server. A P75 would probably handle that quite well. Big cache is good. 512KB -1MB would be very very happy. : Space is not a problem for us because we have 30 GIG of NFS : mountable space. NFS eh? hmmm, my guess is that you will start to bottleneck on your ethernet. I think local would be better for the number of users you have. Think about it... If your users are reading news from local pcs then those articles are going to travel TWICE on your net. Once via NFS from NFS server to your NNTP server. Once from your NNTP server to the user... ugh. that includes btw, the reception of the article. 12GB of news disk space is pretty comfortable. You would do well if those were say 2GB 5400rpm or 7200rpm (watch the airflow though) drives. Each of those drives will do 1.5-2.0 (YMMV) MB/s whereas your ethernet (unless you are using FDDI or fast ethernet) will stop around 1.2MB/s max.... At frii.com we have: P90, 16MB, Adpatec 2940, 4 2GB 5400 rpm drives. Each news drive is chopped into two 1GB partitions. We split up the big 5 and misc on the remaining space with alt.bin* into another one. : My question is this: Will a Pentium 100 running BSD be able to : handle this task? hmm, yeah I would think so. like I said NFS will probably be the bottleneck. brad