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#! rnews 1666 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:1632 news.software.nntp:13757 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!brasil.moneng.mei.com!not-for-mail From: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Newspool Date: 25 May 1995 09:43:16 -0500 Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3q2524$7ot@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <3q20eu$vk@airhk.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: brasil.moneng.mei.com In news.software.nntp article <3q20eu$vk@airhk.air.org>, chris@airhk.air.org (Chris Lo) wrote: :Hi, : :Can anyone suggest a good newfs parameter for a newsspool under :FreBSD, I find it cannot use a block size < 4096. I'm using SNAP-0322. Uh, what's the matter with 4096/512? I have used this forever, and it works just fine.... news.sol.net (FreeBSD 2.0R) has a 7GB news spool, done this way. The old news.sol.net (SunOS 4.1) had 3GB of disk done that way. spool.mu.edu, a major Usenet hub, also has disks done that way. Works great, less filling. The only reason that I might consider not using 4096/512 is if I had a dedicated partition for alt.binaries, due to the totally different traffic content (8192/1024 seems to be a mild performance win, based on some miscellaneous tests I've played with, and given the huge average article size). Good luck, ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847