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- Path: sparky!uunet!tis.com!mjr
- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:53:35 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <1jp1pfINN3de@sol.tis.com>
- References: <THOMSON.93Jan22073952@zarda.macc.wisc.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com
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- >We are looking at upgrading our campus Usenet News server from a hopelessly
- >overburdened DECstation 3100 to a DECstation 5000/240. The biggest bottleneck
- >for handling news has been disk access time, so we're looking at options that
- >will allow us the highest disk throughput possible to a disk with a capacity
- >of at least a gigabyte. I'm looking for advice on an optimal configuration
-
- Your message-ID was a Cnewsish one. I'd start by upgrading to
- INN. That will solve some of your problems right away.
- If that doesn't do it, I think I'd buy a second SCSI controller
- and get the disk striping for ULTRIX software (from assets) and about
- 4 Rz25s. Those are the little, *fast* 500or-so-meg disks. I'd build
- them into a stripe set with 2 on each controller, and then I'd add a
- pile of RAM to the machine. Alternative #2 is an IPI controller and
- a big, fast IPI disk.
-
- mjr.
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