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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.
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Message-ID: <4f3kta$s0l@jaxnet.jaxnet.com>
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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?
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