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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!newnews.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!twwells!twwells!not-for-mail From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 14 Oct 1996 20:43:49 -0400 Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53umo5$oo@twwells.com> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <53ott7$579@adv.IAEhv.nl> <53pm5c$5ks@twwells.com> <53u0ph$20p@adv.IAEhv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: twwells.com In article <53u0ph$20p@adv.IAEhv.nl>, Arjan de Vet <devet@adv.IAEhv.nl> wrote: : 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. Comparisons between systems *are not meaningful*. That's why the numbers I gave were about *my* system under varying circumstances. (Hell, comparisons between a system at 5AM and the same system at 5PM aren't even meaningful!) Now, with your machine, you're getting, you claim, 12,000 articles/hour == 3.33 articles/second -- you could get that with disks that are 67% faster than mine (not at all impossible, mine aren't especially fast) or shorter retention periods on your newsgroups (the speed of your innd can depend quadratically on this and I keep mine around for a long time -- 25 days on the popular groups). And there are any number of other things that can contribute one way or another to the processing speed.