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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!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!jax!krenaut From: krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com (Karl Renaut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: News Server Performance Date: 5 Feb 1996 01:01:30 GMT Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4f3kta$s0l@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jax.jaxnet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I need a little advice on my news server. I would like to get a full news feed, but I am concerned if my machine can handle it. Currently the expire process takes aproximately 12 hours to run, I currently on receive about 5000 news groups (although I'm sure they account for a large percent of news traffic thats out there, they are the standard comp, news, rec, sci, talk, alt, soc, etc..). Here is my machine configuration: Intel P100 - 256k cache - 64mb main memory Buslogic 946c PCI scsi controller 3c509b etherlink III system files /, /usr, /var - 2gig seagate 8ms seek 5400rpm /var/news/spool - 4gig barracuda /var/news/spool/alt - 4gig barracuda /var/news/spool/alt/binaries - 4gig barracuda First, I noticed that I am using as much as 32meg of swap space, so obviously, more memory should help. Second, I recently had to recover they news history file, so, I rebuilt it from scratch... I noticed that the expire process ran twice as fast while the history file was still small, so, I am thinking that the history file processing is taking up as much, if not more time, than the actual process that removes the news articles. Is more memory the only thing that is going to help me here? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Renaut Voice: 904-350-1969 Southeast Network Services Data: 904-292-4567 P.O. Box 56946 email: krenaut@southeast.net Jacksonville, FL 32241 http://jax.jaxnet.com Making Internet Affordable / - \ ----------------------------------------m| o o |m---------------- U