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- From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.193302.28673@coe.montana.edu>
- Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: CS
- References: <THOMSON.93Jan22073952@zarda.macc.wisc.edu> <1jp1pfINN3de@sol.tis.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:33:02 GMT
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- In article <1jp1pfINN3de@sol.tis.com> mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
- >>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
-
- Of course, adding second SCSI implies that they no longer use the 3100.
-
- I have news serving our campus off a 240 with 72MB's RAM, and news is on a
- RZ25, and I'm running the Cnews perf release, and having no load problems
- at all. Well, actually, I needed more capacity, so now it's running of
- an HP 1.3GB drive, but still a single spindle, no probs.
-
- INN will certainly help if you have lots of incoming feeds; I didn't notice
- a big improvement with readers though. INN is certainly tuned for handling
- oodles of incoming news.
- --
- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780
- 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
- Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu
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