I'm net admin for a company that will be selling franchised ISPs. We're just about ready to go online for testing. I have an INN installation ready to go, but am very seriously considering using nntpcache instead (with INN just doing our local groups). I've done a lot of testing at home using Linux on a minimal machine, and it seems to do an excellent job. What would be an optimal hardware to run this on a dedicated machine? It seems to me the biggest demand is on memory. Also since hard-drive thrashing during heavy use is undesirable, throw extra ram so it can cache the drive. I'm figuring on something like: Pentium 200mhz Linux 2.0.27 5 gigs of HD (a single 4 gig platter dedicated to NNTPC) 64 megs of RAM What would be an optimal configuration? I'd like to have news "refresh" every 2 hours (max) so it looks like we are getting a continuous feed. I'd also like to cache as much as possible since I'll have the disk to handle it. Other than pulling 2 files from 1.0.3 to compile, is 1.0.5 giving anyone problems? I noticed a post on the list archive saying that history files got blown out with an "_" character in the path. . . Is this fixed now? Thanks for the info, Ken Eves cyberw4@cyberworldcafe.com
