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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help improve news server performance
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 17:00:57 +1000
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I notice that you have an ISA-bus NE2000 (or clone) card yet you have a
PCI-bus machine!!!  I've tossed ALL by SVEC NE2000 clone cards in some
dark, dusty corner never to see the light of day again...  They are VERY
BAD NEWS on Pentium/PCI machines and I suspect the same on K5's.  The
small amount of receive buffering meant that any other reasonable NIC on
the LAN could 'flood' the NE2000 resulting in ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL tcp/ip
performance (av 5-15 Kb/s for file transfers!!!).

Another thing...  I've got my news partitions mounted both noatime and
async.  A pair of Seagate 4GB SCSI drives + 1 3GB EIDE on a P120 with
128 MB of RAM holds up pretty well with ~1/2 GB/day of news coming in.

Tony