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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Have you set up a News server? Date: 11 May 1996 02:18:13 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4n1m0l$ph6@itchy.serv.net> References: <4n11cv$k088_002@ca.mdis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <4n11cv$k088_002@ca.mdis.com>, Preston L. Bannister <pbannister@ca.mdis.com> wrote: >I'm trying to set up a News server. >What is reasonable hardware for this role? I'll assume you're talking about a full feed here. If not, the configuration you spec'd may work. > >We have a 486/66 box with 16 MB RAM, and 1.3 GB of (IDE) disk space allocated >for the News server. Do yourself a favor and get that silly IDE idea out of your head, especially if you want to *ever* feed more than comp.* Just remember what shakespeare said in "Julius Caesar": "Beware the IDES....." Get a PCI-based SCSI controller and *as many* disks with *as fast* seek time as your budget can afford; this is what will determine how much news you can feed in a day. If you really want to try IDE, get a disk with decent seek time. > >My (inexpert) opinion was that C News and NNTP would be a good fit, with INN >needing more memory to run well, and offering more than we need in terms of >performance. Perhaps, but INN has higher performance which is key. > >Is the disk space sufficient (for carrying perhaps just the comp.* groups)? Depends on the expire and the disk performance. Probably, but think about whether you ever want to carry close to a full feed. > >Is C News/NNTP a good choice, or can INN run in "only" 16 meg? Once when I had some memory go bad, we ran INN for a couple days in 16 meg. It performed quite well, surprisingly. We backlogged a bit, but were still feeding almost 100K articles a day. If you want a full feed I would start looking in the 64-128M range, though. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson