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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!winternet.com!io.org!torfree!rogers.com!mail.rogers.com!usenet From: blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: new machine for news - any suggestions? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 22:09:00 GMT Organization: Rogers Communications Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4cuor1$ed3@mail.Rogers.Com> References: <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.146.58.8 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote: ||>Everything is working well on my FreeBSD machine, but I am afraid of ||>overloading it if I add too much news. ||>Right now the machine is a DX-2 (was a DX-4, but that's a long story) ||>with 16MB RAM and a 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI hard disk. ||>I am using the machine for: ||>o SMTP mail [chopped...] My 2 cents: I use a Compaq Prosignia VS 300 which is a 586/90 running 2.1-RELEASE, with 64MB RAM, and 14GB (7x2GB drives) spanned over 3 Adaptec cards. However, I didn't install the pre-compiled INN. I downloaded the source, and compiled the latest (at that time, sec3). I also split the most heavy groups into their own drives, such as alt.binaries etc. Overall, I can keep most of the news up to 21 days!!! The server's taking a full feed but does not feed any other site (except for passing the postings back to the feeder every 15 minutes). It's been running very nicely for more than a month now. Not to mention I never had to reboot the box once! Currently, the readership is not high enough (only about 100 people daily) to tell whether it will really stand the heat, but from what I've seen so far, I'm sure it will. ___