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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!lynx.unm.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.ping.at!kukuruz!kukuruz!not-for-mail From: cm@kukuruz.ping.at (christian mock) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: News Server Performance Date: 6 Feb 1996 00:50:45 +0100 Organization: private Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4f654l$5dr@kukuruz.ping.at> References: <4f3kta$s0l@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> Reply-To: cm@ping.at NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.ping.at In article <4f3kta$s0l@jaxnet.jaxnet.com>, Karl Renaut <krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com> wrote: > Intel P100 - 256k cache - 64mb main memory > Buslogic 946c PCI scsi controller > 3c509b etherlink III > system files /, /usr, /var - 2gig seagate 8ms seek 5400rpm > /var/news/spool - 4gig barracuda > /var/news/spool/alt - 4gig barracuda > /var/news/spool/alt/binaries - 4gig barracuda we run our news server on a 486/100 PCI, 64 megs, BT946, 2 gig / + /usr + 4 gig /var/spool/news + 4 gig /alt, and it's able to keep up until some 5 articles/second if need is. expire is taking half an hour with a history of 1.5 million entries. probably you should try to build your own inn, I did some fiddling with the dbzincore and mmap parameters in config.data -- I can mail it to you if you like. ciao, cm.