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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!maui.cc.odu.edu!animaniacs.cs.odu.edu!jamie From: SysAd Punk <jamie@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Have you set up a News server? Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 14:28:08 -0400 Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960511141531.250A-100000@animaniacs.cs.odu.edu> References: <4n11cv$k088_002@ca.mdis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: animaniacs.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4n11cv$k088_002@ca.mdis.com> On Sat, 11 May 1996, Preston L. Bannister wrote: > I'm trying to set up a News server. Lots o stuff deleted. > Is the disk space sufficient (for carrying perhaps just the comp.* groups)? > > Is C News/NNTP a good choice, or can INN run in "only" 16 meg? > > > I'm looking for value judgements, not explanations I can look up... :-) For just comp.*, you should have enough space. INN is the way to go, in my opinion. Using the FAQ to it's fullest makes installation and setup very doable. INN isn't what kills news servers, expire is. I run a news server on a P120, triton2 pci mb, 32M RAM, Adaptec 2940UW pci scsi card, 2 4.3 G quantum grand prix 7200 rpm scsi2 fast hard drives. I carry the fullest feed I can get from MCI (excluding non-us groups, and site based groups (such as emory.*)). Non binary groups run an 8 day expire, and have 3.5G of space which they average %80 use of, while I have binaries on thier own 2.5G partition, and they run a 1 day expire, or news throttles due to lack of available disk space. Expire is what kills me...everything runs fine, the machine is under a .5 load average at any time when expire isn't running. Adding a another 32M of RAM soon, and that should hopefully fix my expire woes. For what you want to do though, your setup should be fine. Jamie Bowden