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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!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: new machine for news - any suggestions? Date: 8 Jan 1996 05:02:07 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4cq8gf$rn9@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com>, Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote: >I want to start adding lots of newsgroups now, but I think this might >start becoming too much of a load for this one machine, particularly if >all 8 Portmaster lines become full and everybody wants to read >newsgroups. So I was thinking of getting a new FreeBSD machine JUST for Perhaps, it's hard to say. We have a 486DX2 system here taking two inn feeds over a T1 and serving some 6Gb of news to 20 readers. Seems to work just fine, when we're not having troubles with the feed sites themselves. I would maybe try upping the number of newsgroups you allow in until things seem uncomfortable, then back off a notch.. :-) >Also, what's the deal with IDE disks? Most of the already-built Pentium- >based machines here in Tokyo come with IDE disks. I heard that they >should be avoided with FreeBSD (and UNIX in general). What do people >think? I can't find a single SCSI-based system anymore, unless I put one >together myself! You can use IDE systems just fine, with the following important provisos: o If you want to expand significantly later, you're wasting your money. o If you're going to stick FreeBSD on an IDE drive, give it the entire drive. You don't need to sweat the geometry hassles at all then. I dislike IDE drives and do not use them in any of my systems, but that doesn't mean that you won't have good success with them. Jordan