[geeks] news servers.

[William W. Arnold]

Tim Harrison writes ---
>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.

Didn't think so.

>>   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? :)

The groups who's creation is discussed in news.config, ie:
comp.*,humanities.*,misc.*,news.*,rec.*,sci.*,soc.*,talk.*

>> 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?

yep. (actually, Big8+(Alt-Alt.binaries)+Selected, to be precise)

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-billy- warnold at vipnet.org