Howdy,
A full news feed is about 28GB, 30,000 news groups, 700,000
articles, all per day. About 80% of that is binaries, 65% of which are in
alt.bin*, with alt.warez* taking up most of the rest of that binary
bandwidth.
We (NEGIA, a mid sized ISP) are testing a super-fast news server we got
from VAResearch. Fantastic setup, and quite inexpensive. We have two full
feeds and 3 partial feeds, all from different sources, and this new server
is taking it all in stride.
-Sincerely,
----Patrick
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Q: news servers
>
>
> >(Are you sure your internet connectivity bandwidth is sufficient to
> >accept a full newsfeed?)
>
>
> An important point, BTW.
>
> 56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if it's gone past that now.
>
> More importantly, however, will your hard drives cut it? A single big, fast
> drive won't. 2 probably won't.
>
> The big news servers run with many small drives striped, and you're better
> off if the history file is on multiple spindles that aren't also doing
> something else.
>
>
> Cut out alt.binaries.* and you can get away with 56k and one stripe set,
> maybe, if you don't do anything else with that 56k.
>
> I ran one briefly (before I convinced them to farm it out to a third party)
> with two hard drives, not striped, and a busy 256k pipe.
>
> We were not carrying alt.binaries.* and alt.warez.*, meaning we had
> approximately a half feed.
>
> We were getting approximately 2/3 of the remaining news per day, meaning
> that at the end of three days we were a full day behind in news.
>
>
> BTW, older versions of INN supposedly can't even handle the volume even with
> fast hardware, but I can't confirm this, having never run it on sufficient
> hardware with a full feed. I suspect the figures may be bogus, since they
> came from sales people for a commercial news server product.
>
>
>
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