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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:58:30 GMT
Chris Mauritz (ritz@interactive.net) wrote:
: My setup is like this:
Mine differs by having:
: P166 (Tyan Tomcat I)
486DX4-120(Motherboard manual doesn't identify manufacturer)
: 2 Buslogic 956C fast-wide controllers
1 BusLogic 445C fast narrow VLB controller
: 4 4gig fast-wide Seagate Barracudas (2 on each controller)
1 fast-narrow 4gig Seagate Barracuda
2 fast-narrow 4gig Seagate Hawks
1 fast-narrow 1gig Seagate Hawk
: 128mb fast page mode parity RAM
48 MB RAM
: 512k L2 pipeline burst cache
not sure if the cache is this sizee,I think so
: DEC FDDI connection to 100mbit local lan
Allied Telesyn Ethernet card,10Mb LAN
: T3 connection to news provider (UUnet)
384k to New York Net
: BSDI 2.1 (plus patches)
FreeBSD 2.1R
: The disks are divided like so:
:
: Controller 1
: ------------
: cuda 1:
: /
: /news/lib
: /tmp
: 128m swap
The 1 gig disk has the /news/lib files,/tmp,OS,etc,
and the local hierarchies and archives
: cuda 2:
: /news/spool/alt/binaries
: 128m swap
The Barracuda has the /alt/binaries
: Controller 2
: ------------
[I've only got one controller]
: cuda 3:
: /news/spool/alt
: 128m swap
/alt/[not binaries] is on one 4gig Hawk
: cuda 4:
: /news/spool/all other news hierachies (3g)
/[not alt] is on the other 4g Hawk
: /news/novdata (1g for news overview files)
The various news directories have .overview files in them
: 128m swap
:
: For news transport, I'm using the latest cnews + the latest
: nntp.
I think that's the same unless they've updated lately,
except that nntp you compiled for us was not the latest one at
ftp.academ.com
: I generally keep 1 day of binaries and 4-5 days of all other
: stuff ('cept clari, which I keep for a week).
I keep binaries 2 days,don't have clari,most stuff is 9-14 days
some favorites stay up to two months(a handful),local is set at never