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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!pith.uoregon.edu!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!fortress.broadcom.com!scorpion.broadcom.com!usenet From: jsin@scorpion.broadcom.com (John Sin) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: newbie question for a brand new site Date: 30 Dec 1996 20:05:47 -0800 Organization: Broadcom Corporation Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5aa3er$16s$1@scorpion.broadcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: scorpion.broadcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:28872 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33398 Hi all, I just setup a new News server about a week ago for our company. I think I have everything set up OK, but I do realize that I still have a lot to learn. The INN FAQ helped tremendously -- a huge Thank You! goes to those who helped in writing it. :-) My server has been running INN 1.5 (and then 1.5.1) for about 10 days or so. For the moment, I'm getting fed the following groups: biz.* ca.* comp.* gnu.* ieee.* info.* la.* misc.* news.* oc.* rec.* sci.* sdnet.* test* There's probably about 2500 groups all together. My news spool directory has been filling up steadily and is up to 425MB, and my history file is about 14MB. My log file shows something like the following: Dec 30 19:14:27 fortress innd: newsserver connected 15 streaming allowed Dec 30 19:14:27 fortress innd: newsserver:15 NCmode "mode stream" received Dec 30 19:14:37 fortress innd: newsserver:15 closed seconds 20 accepted 85 refused 0 rejected 0 My question is, is this normal/typical? I guess I had expected the connection to stay open longer and transfer more articles, at least initially. Is there a bottleneck here that I am not aware of? Relevent info: Pentium 133, 64MB RAM (250MB swap) FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE INN 1.5.1, not using MMAP (is it safe to use this?) Adaptec 2400UW SCSI controller 2 CONNER CFP1060S 1GB (/ and /var) 1 SEAGATE ST410800W 9GB (/var/news/spool) I'm using overview, and the db is still located in /var/news/spool/over.view I don't think that won't be problem for me yet -- or is it? Maybe I will go read some RFCs... All comments welcome!