[SunRescue] Re: Router vs. PC with router/firewall software...

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I've been running CNFS in production for more than two years now. No
problems. HSNX.atgi.net last ranked #73 on freenix, hovering in the 100's
now on the alternative top1000. If I were to un-throttle my newsserver, I
could completely peg two T3's and eat a good portion of a third.

we're talking apples and oranges. NNTPcache isn't adequate for global news
transit. INN is the wrong tool for a small enduser newsserver with two or
three readers, unless you're a masochist, and proud of it (i've been
running INN since 1994, so you know what i am)... :^)

James Lockwood writes:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 paul at anastrophe.com wrote:
> 
> > Those bottlenecks went away years ago when they introduced CNFS, which most
> > installations now use. Disks aren't the bottleneck any more - the network
> > is.
> 
> I consider CNFS prior to 2.3 to be alpha-quality, I had _many_ issues with
> it in 2.2.x.  2.3 looks highly promising but has hardly been out for
> several years.
> 
> Meanwhile, NNTPcache has been using mmap intelligently to cache in storage
> pools for over four and a half years.  I've been using it since 1996
> myself, starting on a Sun 4/330 running Solaris 2.4.  Solid stuff.
> 
> -James
> 
> 
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Paul Theodoropoulos
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Syntactically Subversive Services, Inc.
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