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Bruce M. Walker (bmw@isgtec.com) wrote:
...
: Then I must ask you, what on earth are *you* running for s/w?  We
: accept pretty much a full feed from Pagesat, and we have one Linux PC
: to suck from the modem and ungzip the batches, and a Silicon Graphics
: 4D/85 running cnews.

CNEWS!!!!!!  Why does this come up again, and again, and again...

CNEWS is outdated.  It worked ok in its day, when it was a couple
MB/day...  Upgrade to INN ....  There is no comparison.

: And I can tell you that that SGI is one very *busy* box.  Sar tells me
: that it's completely disk-bound, and the two drives on it are running
: an average backlog q of disk requests of 2-3 all the time.

: In fact, at the moment, we're struggling to just keep up with the
: incoming batches.  Right now we're losing :-(

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: bmw@isgtec.com   [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!bmw ]   Bruce Walker

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