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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Subject: Re: Anyone using a DECstation 5000/200 as a news server?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.015028.2518@decuac.dec.com>
- Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <2A9F8FED.29719@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1992Aug29.155441.28107@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:50:28 GMT
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- john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
-
- >We are using a DECstation 3100 with 24MB as our campus news server
- >(nntp & c-news). [...]
- >IMHO, CPU power is not as important as having fast seeking disks
- >and enough memory (plenty dedicated to bufcache).
-
- This is definitely the case. The ideal news server for me
- would be a 2100/3100 with a load of RAM and about 6 Rz25s configured
- as a stripe set. That would be like swatting a fly with a hand
- grenade, though...
-
- I haven't gotten to study INN yet, but it sounds pretty
- promising, for big servers.
-
- mjr.
-