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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Spindles? References: <4b7tf3$si3@gol2.gol.com> <DJvDM3.25o@ritz.mordor.com> <4b967n$98k@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> Organization: Mordor International Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 19:20:13 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DJwGDq.LM4@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 50 Marino Ladavac (ladavac@aut.alcatel.at) wrote: : Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : : Doug Lerner (doug@gol.com) wrote: : : : What's all this I hear about "spindles" in the discussion on running a : : : news server? : : : What is a spindle? : : : Also, why are people saying that huge amounts of RAM, like 48MB or more : : : are needed? : : : I have been running my news server (albeit just a few dozens of groups : : : and less than a week for expire) on my 16MB RAM DX4 machine with a : : : single partition 1GB SCSI disk for months now and have not noticed any : : : problems. : : : Is the reason I am not having problems because I am doing things on such : : : a small scale? : : Yes, try having a few thousand alt groups. :-) Your machine : : will quickly start to swap and will certainly fill up your : : 1 gig drive. : Like, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica for multigigabytes, and alt.flame for : many, many small files devouring your inodes. Yeah, what he said. :-) I have about 3gb dedicated to news and we need to expire every 3 days to keep a reasonable margin of free disk space. Not keeping that margin means you get boinked every time some idiot decides to post the entire MS-OFFIC CD to a random alt group or when another decides to scan every image in every nudie magazine he ever owned and post the results. We're going to add another 4gb to our news spool just to make things a bit more bearable. As it stands we have news/logs/overview split over 3 separate Barracudas using a Buslogic 946C controller. That seems to be JUST fast enough to do an expire in a reasonable amount of time. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451