🚀 go-pugleaf

Joe Hartley (jh@cadre.com) wrote:
: C. T. Nadovich (chris@kd3bj.ampr.org) wrote:
: : norman@pagesat.net (Norman Gillaspie) writes:
...
: : If you have never been a Usenet administrator, you can have no concept
: : of the difficulties involved in managing 100-200 MB per day of news.
: : This alone requires full days, if not weeks of work, even if Norman
: : himself flew to your site to install the dish. 
...
: : If you are not running a Unix based system, you will have trouble.  If
: : you are not running at least 16550 UARTs, you will have trouble.  (I
: : have an i486, SVr4 Unix, and a Digiboard intellegent serial card.  My
: : load average over 24 hours is 35% CPU/IO utilization to support the

I agree without Unix you are in trouble, but 35% CPU/IO (if that means
35% of 100% possible and not just compared to other work) is really
way off.  Are you short of memory, running C-news, or something else?

I putaway the full feed, expire twice a day, and keep 2+ weeks
on a 700MB partition.  (How?  With my expireunread script I posted 
here and alt.sources a few weeks ago.)  Load is typically <1%.

: : feed.) If you expect a plug-n-play system on a typical Windoze consumer
: : PC, you will have trouble. 

: The right tool for the right job is a primary rule of life.  I wouldn't
: run a Ford Escort in the Indy 500, and I wouldn't run News on a PC.  You
: can do it, but no matter how you do it, it's not the tool for the job.

A 66DX2 486 is in the neighborhood of a Sparc 2, especially with the right
IO cards, ram, etc.

sdw
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