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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: new machine for news - any suggestions? Date: 8 Jan 1996 04:08:52 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan (+81-3-5330-9385) Lines: 56 Message-ID: <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.243.53.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Everything is working well on my FreeBSD machine, but I am afraid of overloading it if I add too much news. Right now the machine is a DX-2 (was a DX-4, but that's a long story) with 16MB RAM and a 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI hard disk. I am using the machine for: o SMTP mail o NNTP for a few dozen newsgroups o JIS/SHIFT-JIS conversion of all the messages o uucp to a FirstClass BBS o RADIUS for a Portmaster (just 8 incoming lines) o X running just for my maintenance The hard disk is partitioned into just one 100MB DOS partition and one 900MB FreeBSD partition. The FreeBSD partition regularly holds at about 24% full. I want to start adding lots of newsgroups now, but I think this might start becoming too much of a load for this one machine, particularly if all 8 Portmaster lines become full and everybody wants to read newsgroups. So I was thinking of getting a new FreeBSD machine JUST for news. o What do people think of this? o What kind of machine is recommended, considering that this is just a hobbyist system and we are not rich? o How should the new system's HD be partitioned? o Is it easy to distribute different newsgroups over different partitions? Also, what's the deal with IDE disks? Most of the already-built Pentium- based machines here in Tokyo come with IDE disks. I heard that they should be avoided with FreeBSD (and UNIX in general). What do people think? I can't find a single SCSI-based system anymore, unless I put one together myself! In Tokyo, you can get a Hitachi "Flora" Pentium 75MHz machine with an internal 540MB IDE hard disk, 16MB of RAM, 4-speed CD-ROM, built-in modem, full color monitor, MIDI board, keyboard, mouse and Windows 95, Microsoft Word and Excel, etc., all installed for just around $1,500. Any advice or discussions, particularly inside this newsgroup, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo