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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!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 18 Oct 1996 17:09:28 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <54967o$fpj@itchy.serv.net> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <544nas$b5h@flash.noc.best.net> <5456rv$kbu@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> <545nm7$bd1@flash.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <545nm7$bd1@flash.noc.best.net>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote: >:In article <5456rv$kbu@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>, > Nonsense. Why does everyone seem to believe that, somehow, .overview > is more magical then some random article file? Scanning .overview once > per group is an order of magnitude less expensive then reading 10 articles > in the group. It's in the noise. My newsreader machine is happily wonking Precisely correct ; it takes as much effort to read and/or write it as a random article file, which is precisely why you shouldn't have it in your main spool. If you do, you're taking a feed of n articles per minute (n disk writes per minute) and doubling it to n*2 disk writes per minute. If it's on a separate spindle, it isn't taking valuable disk seek capacity which could be used on writing articles. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson