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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a news server Date: 14 Jan 1997 05:37:49 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bf63d$msp@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970113174902.19790A-100000@despair.capecod.net> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva3.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33859 In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970113174902.19790A-100000@despair.capecod.net>, Brian <brian@despair.capecod.net> writes: >Any comments on running a full news feed from UUNet on FreeBSD? What kind >of hardware specs do you have? We're either going to run FreeBSD or >Linux.. FreeBSD is preferred by me. Two years ago I ran a partial feed on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 that turned over approximately 800MB a day in news using Cnews. The system ran for a year without any crashes. I think that these days the average is about 3GB of news for a full feed, which is impossible to pass over a T1 anymore. People seem to like to use satellite feeds nowadays. With this kind of a system I'd recommend using INN with at least 64MB of ram, and multiple SCSI channels and disks. You want at least 9ms average access time on each disk. You probably don't want to try it with anything less than a Pentium 133. Now, partial feeds are much less demanding, and unless your an ISP you should probably just try for doing that.