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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!imp.fl.net.au!imp.fl.net.au!adf From: adf@imp.fl.net.au (Andrew Foster) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: new machine for news - any suggestions? Date: 8 Jan 1996 05:29:21 GMT Organization: First Link Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4cqa3h$dlr@imp.fl.net.au> References: <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com> <4cq8gf$rn9@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: imp.fl.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, : In article <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com>, Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote: : >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 : Perhaps, it's hard to say. We have a 486DX2 system here taking two : inn feeds over a T1 and serving some 6Gb of news to 20 readers. : Seems to work just fine, when we're not having troubles with the feed : sites themselves. : You can use IDE systems just fine, with the following important provisos: : o If you want to expand significantly later, you're wasting your : money. : o If you're going to stick FreeBSD on an IDE drive, give it the : entire drive. You don't need to sweat the geometry hassles at : all then. : I dislike IDE drives and do not use them in any of my systems, but that : doesn't mean that you won't have good success with them. (E)IDE is fine for the root file system, but I would NOT recommend it for a news spool (or a mail or WWW server). I'd recommend a 2GB drive if you're not bringing in a full feed just so you don't have to expire too often. -- Andrew Foster adf@fl.net.au