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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 12 Oct 1996 11:10:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <53nuar$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > ....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? > > Faster CPU?(would require new motherboard and SCSI controller) > More RAM? > More disks? > Upgrade to 2.1.5? I have no clues about Cnews. For INN, i'd say: ``More RAM''. The rule of thumb says that the server needs more RAM than the history file is in size, so it can keep the history always in-core. Maybe the usage pattern for Cnews is different however. Perhaps, it's also an option to move to INN? As i understand it, INN is much better suited for heavy-load news servers. Cnews might be more practical for leaf sites (but i prefer INN even on my private single-user machine, all it costs me is a little swap). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)