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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
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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. ;-)