On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Alans other account wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Tom wrote: > > > I'd like to know how effective nntpcache is in this situation. > > Particularly on how whether you can get away with leasing less connections > > from the upstream server, then you actually need, because of benefits of > > caching. > > I have nntpcached feeding primarily off a site I co-admin in > Chicago. Whenever I check during evening peaks, nntpcache has at > least a dozen parallel connects open. For how many readers? If you have only 12 readers, nntpcache isn't helping much, but if you have 24 readers, it is helping quite a bit. ... > I'm surprised a provider is charging per number of concurrent > connects. I'd have thought that they'd charge on a "number of IP > addresses" or "articles served" or "overall traffic Mb" basis. They are all doing it. Probably can't track anything. > AB Tom
