[geeks] news servers.

[Tim Harrison]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, William W. Arnold wrote:

> Question 1)
>   Are you talking about a Full newsfeed (including the binaries groups)

Yes, we're looking at all options right now.

> If so, I'll go out on a limb and say you can't afford it.  A full feed
> is currently running at ~300G/day == ~30megabit/second

We could, but at those rates, HEEEELL no.

>   If you just want the Big8+Alt+selected other text groups then it's
> no big deal.

Big8 being.... ? Can you tell I don't use usenet that often? :)

> I have 14G disk devoted to news, and can keep ~20 days news.
>
> 1 Days news is (from the INN report):
> Date:  Jul 23               Articles    %Arts Art/sec      Size   %Size  KB/sec
> TOTAL: 23:59:58               140370   100.0%    1.62  647.7 MB  100.0%    7.68
>
> Largest single hour that day was:
> Jul 23 12:00:00 - 12:59:59      7079     5.0%    1.97   46.9 MB    7.2%   13.34

I'm assuming that this is with the aforementioned Big8+alt+selected?


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Tim Harrison
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