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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!shovey From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD As News Server Date: 17 Nov 1995 18:51:33 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 24 Message-ID: <48iljl$1vd@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <47o7v6$4pt@nntp.interaccess.com> <MICHAELV.95Nov7232119@mindbender.headcandy.com> <DHqB6t.LDD@nntpa.cb.att.com> <Pine.SUN.3.90.951113165735.9815C-100000@tsunami.cs.odu.edu> <48aujc$9b4@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tombstone (stone@flowbee.interaccess.com) wrote: : : Linux WILL lock up TOTALLY (i.e., hard reboot) under heavy network : : load...FreeBSD uses my SMC card full tilt boogie without problem or : : error. Linux just crashes, hard. Supposedly the new Linux kernels have : : better network performance nad are more robust, but I don't really care : : to find out. : : Jamie : Well thank you the responses guys. The P90 w/Adaptec 2940 SCSI and 2 : Gigs is on its way! : P.S. The new linux kernels are fine. We serve 350 email accounts from a : 386 25MHZ PC w/only 8 megs ram. (recieving/sending in excess of 4000 msgs : a day, well yesterday anyway) been running for nearly a year. I have : heard that BSD is the way to go for NEWS though; thanks! You made a good choice - the crashy problem with linux and news is more a problem with the swap area under a scsi controller which is why I use freeBSD (with but 2.0.5 you might want to NOT use MMAP) ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net