On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 yoper@yoper.com wrote: > Pentium II 400 - Good Motherboard Are you going to use NoCEM? You *might* wish to lower the spec of the processor slightly and get SMP perhaps. If you're not using NoCEM, then I envisage that your system would be memory/disk bound, not CPU bound, with which my advice is get as much memory as possible - even just to cache disk accesses. > Adaptec 2940 UW Controller I've heard differing opinions of the Acraptecs under Linux, my choice would be something from Mylex/Buslogic. > UW Seagate HDs probably 2x9 GIG (maybe software raid :) Try going for hardware striping. Perhaps also try smaller drirves, but more of them for better performance. > Debian Linux (or redhat ????) There are a few problems with Linux (as before mentioned), therfore I would suggest for the best setup, that you choose FreeBSD. > Or is this too much ??? What are your experiences on a medium size ISP > level? > > INN would run on another box (our existent News server). This server would > hold our local groups and get country-wide postings from peerings we have > with other ISPs. Local Groups would then be accessible through this server > via nntpcache, whose main link would be to a big News Provider in the US. > > 1.) What are the best expiry settings for the various nntpcache - feeds > (especially the main one). The nntpcache.servers file has several example settings for several different systems. It's worth tuning these in the few few days/weeks that you have nntpcache for the optimal settings. > 3.) Any specific preference on redhat or debian or any other Linux FreeBSD :). Linux is Linux.. My preference is Debian however All IMNSHO.. Hope this helps, Peter. --- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. --Robert Wilensky, University of California [ PGP fingerprint : 40 FB D0 C4 3D 8A 2D B4 78 2B 45 03 D0 20 88 8B ]
