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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
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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)

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Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net
 	       root@buffnet.net