[rescue] newsgroups on an SS/5...

[Ken Hansen]

That looks very nice for home use... I'll have to give it a try - thanks!

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] newsgroups on an SS/5...


> I'm following up to messages as I go, I've been in the throes of moving
> for most of the past week.  Apologies if this discussion is already dead.
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> > Heh.  I ran a "local" groups collection plus a limited feed (selected
> > groups, no binaries) on a SS2 w/64meg and Solaris 2.5.1... it ran
*fine*.
> > For local-groups-only, even a SS1 would work.
>
> For situations where it is a good fit, I highly recommend NNTPcache
> (www.nntpcache.org).  It makes fairly clever use of mmap() to lower the
> amount of copied data and has relatively low resource requirements: I was
> handling an entire engineering/CS college division (1000+ undergrads) with
> a 4/330 running Solaris 2.4.  The bandwidth savings by running "on demand"
> can be dramatic.  It's a great "home gateway" solution as well.



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