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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!news.ee.ntit.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!news.uky.edu!news From: soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu (John Soward) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Have you set up a News server? Date: 13 May 1996 15:24:00 GMT Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4n7k6g$kuc@service2.uky.edu> References: <4n2fqe$id6@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: neworder.cc.uky.edu I'm setting up a news server as well, anyone have any comments on my system. I expect to take a full feed, and serve probably between 5-50 concurrent NNTP connections. Also I expect to deliver partial feeds to some other organizations. We have two T1s multiplexed. I have a Vectra XU 6/150 (PPro 15), 96Meg of RAM, and 5 Barracuda 4G drives. I have ordered a second 2940 PCI scsi crontroller for the system. Obviously I'll want more ram, if I want to really have 50 nntp sessions at maximum speed, since it's looking like each nnrpd (inn 1.4unoff4) takes about 1.1M, innd soaks up 10-30... But my real question concerns the use of the concurent drive "striping" system. Does anyone have any experience/opionion on using that versus splitting the articles/logs/etc over the various disks/controllers by hand? thanx, -- John Soward <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~soward">JpS</a> Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith :::I'm not speaking for UK. I may not even be speaking for myself:::