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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 20 Oct 1996 17:10:21 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
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References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <5462it$r37@twwells.com> <5467p6$bl4@flash.noc.best.net> <54e5h6$p6@twwells.com>
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Well, I think this conversation has degraded past the point of
usefulness.
All I can say is that I am running *just fine*, with a newsfeeds
machines that is doing this on a weekly basis:
STATS FOR: Mon 07-Oct-96 05:00 to Mon 14-Oct-96 11:54
----- INCOMING ----- ----- OUTGOING ----- (accept) (all)
HOST accept duplic reject | accept duplic reject | %in %out | %in
selandria.cawte 0 1 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
sgigate.sgi.com 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
ictv.com 12 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
thebridgeway.co 2 0 1 | 1216 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
not.hooked.net 133997 1178875 90841 | 0 0 0 | 8 0 | 83
moe.thenet.net 63862 864084 22794 | 0 0 0 | 4 0 | 59
kadath.zeitgeis 2724 286004 56053 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 18
news2.texas.net 12454 1202661 25306 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 77
206.40.72.101 4814 995659 20831 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 63
ns1.vrx.net 278 2602 15 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
idiom.com 61 20001 46 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 1
nntp03.primenet 1043337 254473 215492 | 0 0 0 | 66 0 | 82
news.adelaide.o 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
news1.texas.net 0 0 0 | 103413 1330245 0 | 0 2 | 0
dragon.supranet 0 0 0 | 269493 51168 0 | 0 5 | 0
news.ictv.com 0 0 0 | 588465 84528 430960 | 0 12 | 0
newshub.sdsu.ed 0 0 0 | 177802 1244944 0 | 0 3 | 0
news.tlg.net 0 0 0 | 245009 337345 47023 | 0 5 | 0
sdd.hp.com 0 0 0 | 17773 961823 17862 | 0 0 | 0
legal.com 0 0 0 | 695 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
news2.brainstor 134 7739 188 | 729526 840304 0 | 0 15 | 0
noos.hooked.net 0 0 0 | 332249 929820 0 | 0 7 | 0
news.thenet.net 0 0 0 | 238423 931130 0 | 0 5 | 0
news.vrx.net 0 0 0 | 16167 483 589 | 0 0 | 0
bofh.noc.best.n 114 80 5 | 1109 85 0 | 0 0 | 0
news.exodus.net 0 0 0 | 140969 1279143 0 | 0 3 | 0
shell.webmaster 0 0 0 | 215 0 52 | 0 0 | 0
nntp-best.prime 0 0 0 | 8945 1433502 0 | 0 0 | 0
applehealth.com 0 0 0 | 2995 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
news.demos.su 0 0 0 | 87615 290022 0 | 0 1 | 0
news.ico.net 47 13276 18 | 20135 12229 833 | 0 0 | 0
vs4000.infocomm 2 942 0 | 39494 10107 0 | 0 0 | 0
news1.svc.porta 40 4604 14 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 0
newsfeed1.aimne 1738 1323729 12548 | 36345 717980 0 | 0 0 | 84
nntp01.primenet 63065 154036 7253 | 0 0 0 | 4 0 | 13
hpsdlo.sdd.hp.c 805 933460 1336 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 | 59
130.191.13.4 76215 1118951 67252 | 0 0 0 | 4 0 | 76
news.sgi.com 154644 1047143 117178 | 23747 785473 0 | 9 0 | 76
nntp1.best.com 8012 0 12 | 1539525 46678 0 | 0 33 | 0
wheat.supermac. 0 0 0 | 20985 4 3537 | 0 0 | 0
--------------- ------ ------
TOTAL 1566357 | 4642310
Articles per day accepted: 214814
With an 8GB spool run across four 4G disks, mirrored and striped, and
with a single 4G disk for the administrative partition (history file),
and a measily 128MBytes of ram... Running streaming feeds for everything
of import. All and all, a damn cheap configuration running, in this
case, on a challenge S (which is roughly equivalent to a 166MHz pentium
box).
The overview files are in the spool, not on a separate disk which seems
rather dumb to me considering the bottleneck one disk gives you. Hell,
I don't even *have* to run overview at all on this machine, because
the only newsreaders are administrative, but I do because it's so far
in the noise it isn't even worth the effort to turn it off!
And that I am running a news*reader* machine doing this.. on a sunday no less!
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI P SZ:RSS WCHAN STIME TTY TIME COMD
39 S root 0 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881be1b0 Oct 18 ? 0:01 sched
30 S root 1 0 0 39 20 * 78:51 881bb8b0 Oct 18 ? 0:11 /etc/init
39 S root 2 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881be080 Oct 18 ? 0:21 vhand
39 S root 3 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c6280 Oct 18 ? 34:04 bdflush
39 S root 4 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c6290 Oct 18 ? 9:41 vfs_sync
39 S root 5 0 0 25 20 * 0:0 881bf478 Oct 18 ? 0:00 bpqueue
39 S root 6 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c7610 Oct 18 ? 6:46 xfsd
39 S root 7 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c7610 Oct 18 ? 6:59 xfsd
39 S root 8 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c7610 Oct 18 ? 6:47 xfsd
39 S root 9 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c7610 Oct 18 ? 6:48 xfsd
39 S root 10 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c7610 Oct 18 ? 6:42 xfsd
39 S root 11 0 0 39 RT * 0:0 881c62a0 Oct 18 ? 0:00 pdflush
30 S root 396 1 0 28 20 * 299:107 881bd0d0 Oct 18 tablet 0:00 /sbin/getty ttyd1 co_9600
30 S root 211 1 0 26 20 * 347:86 8889b1b4 Oct 18 ? 0:04 /usr/lib/saf/sac -t 30
30 S root 308 1 0 26 20 * 308:123 8889b2b4 Oct 18 ? 0:09 /sbin/cron
30 S root 28 1 0 26 20 * 302:114 8889b014 Oct 18 ? 0:00 /sbin/xlv_plexd -m 4
30 S root 37 1 0 26 20 * 569:383 881cb120 Oct 18 ? 0:00 /sbin/xlv_labd
30 S root 208 1 0 26 20 * 301:36 8868ea50 Oct 18 ? 0:02 /usr/etc/inetd
39 S root 32 1 0 39 RT * 628:421 881cb108 Oct 18 ? 20:59 xlvd
30 S root 201 1 0 26 20 * 474:252 8868e9e0 Oct 18 ? 0:00 /usr/etc/rpcbind
30 S root 87 1 0 26 20 * 303:112 8868eac0 Oct 18 ? 2:36 /usr/etc/syslogd
30 S root 202 1 0 26 20 * 394:218 8868e9f0 Oct 18 ? 0:03 /usr/sbin/named
30 S root 222 211 0 26 20 * 361:100 8868eb30 Oct 18 ? 0:02 /usr/lib/saf/listen tcp
30 S root 224 1 0 39 8 * 391:391 881bb8b0 Oct 18 ? 1:15 /usr/local/bin/xntpd
30 S news 11443 1 0 26 0 * 13889:13612 8868e880 Oct 18 ? 251:19 /home/news/etc/innd -p4 -i0
30 S root 257 1 0 26 35 * 432:206 8dc2852c Oct 18 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m
30 S root 390 1 0 26 20 * 432:212 8b970a5c Oct 18 ? 0:35 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
30 S news 24222 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868e730 16:44:05 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24230 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868e7b0 16:44:30 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24022 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 930b512c 16:33:59 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24275 11443 0 26 39 * 602:315 8868ea80 16:46:26 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23193 11443 0 26 39 * 604:319 8868e6e0 16:01:02 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 21947 11443 0 26 39 * 610:195 8868e900 15:10:47 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24402 11443 0 26 39 * 607:321 8868ea70 16:51:58 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 23990 11443 0 79 39 * 710:427 16:32:47 ? 0:04 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24139 11443 0 26 39 * 609:325 8868ea00 16:40:56 ? 0:02 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23429 11443 0 26 39 * 607:321 8868e5a0 16:09:48 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23972 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 8b45d23c 16:31:55 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 23413 11443 0 79 39 * 607:322 16:08:56 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24277 11443 1 26 39 * 607:322 8868eaa0 16:46:35 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22768 11443 0 26 39 * 609:325 8868ec50 15:39:49 ? 0:02 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24274 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 8868ea70 16:46:26 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 24351 11443 0 79 39 * 607:322 16:49:44 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23074 11443 0 26 39 * 610:326 8868e770 15:56:16 ? 0:11 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 11623 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 89747da4 09:12:43 ? 0:05 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24097 11443 0 26 39 * 606:322 8868e760 16:38:59 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24439 11443 0 26 39 * 608:324 8868ecc0 16:54:06 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24435 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868ec80 16:53:56 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24430 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868ec30 16:53:40 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S root 24004 23996 0 28 20 * 485:169 881bbcb0 16:33:13 pts/0 0:00 tcsh
30 S news 24292 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868eb90 16:47:36 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 6703 11443 0 26 39 * 613:328 8868e840 Oct 19 ? 0:18 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24032 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 953e5c6c 16:34:59 ? 0:02 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23771 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868eb00 16:24:27 ? 0:02 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 17295 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 97a050a4 13:01:26 ? 0:19 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23132 11443 0 26 39 * 609:325 8868eb10 15:59:03 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24312 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868ecd0 16:48:34 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24365 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 91024638 16:50:05 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22797 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868e620 15:41:13 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24307 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868ec80 16:48:12 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23330 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868e770 16:05:44 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24401 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868ea60 16:51:55 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24059 11443 0 26 39 * 611:327 8868ed00 16:36:22 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23167 11443 0 26 39 * 606:321 8868ed40 16:00:11 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22936 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868e6d0 15:49:11 ? 0:02 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 19722 11443 1 26 39 * 610:325 91c9886c 14:15:56 ? 0:08 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24201 11443 0 26 39 * 604:319 8868e5e0 16:43:16 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 11983 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868ea40 09:36:51 ? 0:04 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24405 11443 0 26 39 * 602:315 8868eaa0 16:52:17 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 24426 11443 0 79 39 * 607:322 16:53:33 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 18182 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 904d4a64 13:26:14 ? 0:10 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 21647 11443 0 26 39 * 610:283 8868e640 15:06:14 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22652 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868ed10 15:32:45 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24404 11443 0 26 39 * 609:323 8868ea90 16:52:10 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23326 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 923bbd2c 16:05:38 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 15923 11443 0 79 39 * 609:324 12:04:10 ? 0:21 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23977 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 8b5ede70 16:32:05 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23405 11443 1 26 39 * 612:330 96f23c9c 16:08:34 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 24284 11443 0 79 39 * 607:322 16:47:04 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24168 11443 0 26 39 * 608:322 8868ebd0 16:41:49 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24431 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868ec40 16:53:42 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23695 11443 0 26 39 * 621:337 8868e640 16:20:36 ? 0:05 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 23724 11443 0 79 39 * 607:322 16:21:50 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23890 11443 0 26 39 * 605:322 8868ea70 16:28:11 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23195 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868e700 16:01:05 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23555 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868e580 16:14:38 ? 0:03 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23651 11443 0 26 39 * 610:326 8868eb80 16:18:40 ? 0:05 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 22791 11443 0 79 39 * 609:324 15:40:43 ? 0:04 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23475 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868e880 16:11:28 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23957 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868e6a0 16:31:04 ? 0:02 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24428 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8b706f2c 16:53:39 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24309 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 8f26c498 16:48:15 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 21643 11443 0 26 39 * 610:95 8868e600 15:06:11 ? 0:05 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 17331 11443 0 26 39 * 610:325 8868e880 13:02:24 ? 1:54 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 20438 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 967caed0 14:43:02 ? 0:11 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22274 11443 0 26 39 * 611:328 8868e570 15:16:50 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22104 11443 0 26 39 * 609:164 8868ead0 15:13:03 ? 0:05 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 13982 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868e730 11:19:04 ? 0:15 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 23970 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 8f21edf8 16:31:54 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22906 11443 0 26 0 * 301:24 8894f40c 15:46:56 ? 0:01 /home/news/bin/gfilter
30 S news 24355 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 8868e780 16:49:53 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24394 11443 0 26 39 * 609:323 8868e9f0 16:51:33 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24111 11443 1 26 39 * 608:323 8b45ddc0 16:39:48 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24406 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 89747660 16:52:17 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24342 11443 0 26 39 * 607:322 94b2bf28 16:49:30 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24326 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 974375d0 16:49:11 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 17575 11443 0 26 39 * 609:328 8d176760 13:09:01 ? 0:07 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 22544 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868e650 15:29:03 ? 0:07 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 18919 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 96285f14 13:46:41 ? 0:15 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24088 11443 0 26 39 * 609:324 8868e6d0 16:38:25 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 R news 23963 11443 0 79 39 * 608:323 16:31:30 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 19133 11443 0 26 39 * 608:324 8868e920 13:53:07 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S news 24077 11443 0 26 39 * 608:323 940a8890 16:37:25 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
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30 S news 23660 11443 0 26 39 * 609:325 8868ec10 16:19:09 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
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30 R news 19080 11443 0 79 39 * 609:324 13:51:02 ? 0:14 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
30 S root 23994 208 0 26 20 * 298:34 8868e8f0 16:33:00 pts/0 0:00 rlogind
30 S news 24103 11443 0 26 39 * 638:354 8868e7c0 16:39:24 ? 0:01 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
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30 R root 24448 24446 12 66 20 0 315:56 16:54:17 pts/1 0:00 ps -elf
30 S news 22898 11443 0 26 39 * 609:323 8868ec70 15:46:30 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
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30 S dillon 24437 24436 0 39 20 * 486:169 881bb8b0 16:54:05 pts/1 0:00 -tcsh
30 S news 23434 11443 0 26 39 * 605:320 8868e5f0 16:10:01 ? 0:00 /home/news/etc/in.nnrpd -s
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With a single 10GB spool made up of 10 2G disks, striped and mirrored,
and a single 2G disk for the administrative partition (history file),
and a measily 128MBytes of ram... and it does not so much as fart at me.
Look at the cpu used by overchan... 17 seconds is zilcho compared to the
251 MINUTES that innd has on it! It's a big nothing. Even if you account
for all the 'potential disk blocking' it does, it's still a big nothing.
If I were to point to the single biggest problem most news administrators
have, and this from direct experience handholding other news admins
and my own experiences, is the mistaken belief that you can run the
innd doing your feeds on the same machine that you run your newsreaders
and actually *scale* that up. It works for a while, but it sure as
hell does not scale.
-Matt
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Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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