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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!surfnet.nl!news.tue.nl!news.IAEhv.nl!adv.IAEhv.nl!adv.IAEhv.nl!not-for-mail From: devet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 14 Oct 1996 20:29:05 +0200 Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands Lines: 23 Message-ID: <53u0ph$20p@adv.IAEhv.nl> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <Dz375G.76v@news2.new-york.net> <53ott7$579@adv.IAEhv.nl> <53pm5c$5ks@twwells.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: adv.iaehv.nl In article <53pm5c$5ks@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote: >In article <53ott7$579@adv.IAEhv.nl>, Arjan de Vet <devet@adv.IAEhv.nl> wrote: >: Shouldn't make too much difference. However an upgrade to INN would... > >With bare INN, you cannot even get 2 articles/second on typical >PC hardware. If you decouple INN from incoming NNTP, you can get >about 2.5 articles/second. If you arrange that spool directories >are kept small, you can get 3.5 articles/second. These are >sustained rates, averaged over periods of hours and days. Yes, >these are real, measured, numbers -- I've done a *lot* of work on >my news server trying to cope with INN's deficiencies. > >A full feed is about 2.5 articles/second, so you can expect that >INN will not keep up with typical PC hardware. Please explain to me why my not-optimized newsserver (P90, 64 Mb, 1 SCSI disk for alt, 1 SCSI disk for the rest, FreeBSD 2.1.0) can handle >12000 articles per hour. With a P166, more memory and more disks this would even get better. Arjan