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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 32 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <Dz71tD.7x3@news2.new-york.net> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <3258CCD5.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> <53brfc$sbe@twwells.com> <53ffcu$ktm@itchy.serv.net> <Dz375G.76v@news2.new-york.net> <53nggv$kaa@Symiserver2.symantec.com> X-Trace: 845175786/9067 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:03:13 GMT tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: : In <Dz375G.76v@news2.new-york.net>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes: : >....it runs C News,not INN,on the advice of my net-end provider. : >I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R. : > : >It has problems keeping up. : > : >What would seem most likely to increase performance? : > : : After experience with Cnews, I can make a few suggestions: : : 1) Whatever you can do to widen the disk channel do it. Going to SCSI-2 from : SCSI -1, Going to Wide SCSI from Fast, going to a PCI SCSI card from an ISA, : going to multiple SCSI cards from a single card, etc etc. I've got a VLB SCSI card.Naturally,if I get a 6x86 motherboard & CPU I'll get a PCI card,and if I add more disks I'll usee another controller. : 2) make sure you have compiled with dbz, not dbm or ndbm and : friends. : : 3) Run ps in it's various incantations and make sure your not paging during : all activities of the system, if so add ram. Will have to check these. : 4) you can sometimes batch stuff, for example do your expiring during the : slowest time of the day, etc. Expiring is set to start at 2:52 AM...but it tends to go on and on and on, and to miss stuff.