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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help improve news server performance Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 17:00:57 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33B9FCA9.59@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5padjp$1ot$1@news.futuresouth.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43822 I notice that you have an ISA-bus NE2000 (or clone) card yet you have a PCI-bus machine!!! I've tossed ALL by SVEC NE2000 clone cards in some dark, dusty corner never to see the light of day again... They are VERY BAD NEWS on Pentium/PCI machines and I suspect the same on K5's. The small amount of receive buffering meant that any other reasonable NIC on the LAN could 'flood' the NE2000 resulting in ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL tcp/ip performance (av 5-15 Kb/s for file transfers!!!). Another thing... I've got my news partitions mounted both noatime and async. A pair of Seagate 4GB SCSI drives + 1 3GB EIDE on a P120 with 128 MB of RAM holds up pretty well with ~1/2 GB/day of news coming in. Tony