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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!twwells!twwells!not-for-mail From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 17 Oct 1996 15:54:55 -0400 Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5462uf$r7o@twwells.com> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <543urf$ar3@flash.noc.best.net> <544bat$41o@twwells.com> <5453hf$7n7@itchy.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: twwells.com In article <5453hf$7n7@itchy.serv.net>, Sean T. Lamont . <zeno@serv.net> wrote: : In article <544bat$41o@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote: : >In article <543urf$ar3@flash.noc.best.net>, : >Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote: : >One other thing: you simply cannot run streaming and nonstreaming : >feeds into the same server. Or, you can, but the nonstreaming : >feeds will get so far behind as to be pointless. Even with fast : >disks, this will be true.... : : this isn't my experience. we were running non-streaming nntplink to a : news server that was about 30ms away from us, and we were able to keep : current ; I think they have 4 or 5 other feeds. : I have, however, had some problems with streaming feeds starving out : nnrp connects ; It's the same problem. A streaming feed gets all its processing done in a single block. Thus you can have several second to a minute while innd spins around the list of channels. If a nnrp get in at the wrong time, the user waits a *long* time. Now, thing about what several seconds of latency *per transaction* will do to a nonstreaming feed -- that's why streaming really kills nonstreaming feeds. For your feed that stays current, you should check the dup numbers. Odds are that, if they had streaming feeds as well, most articles from you were rejected as dups. In some situations, this allows a nonstreaming feed to at least not overflow its batch files....