Hi fellow filerophiles,
I'm trying to gather some working metrics on netnews and filers. I'm told by the folks at HighWind that Cyclone and Typhoon work well with filers, as they care about spool objects and don't care where those spool objects might be. There's always the INN approach, with a master write host and some subsidiary nnrpd hosts mounting the spool dirs read only. Karl Swarz "Brave Little Toaster Meets Usenet" article is the only source of hard metrics I have, and those are primarily benchmark type metrics rather than production environment metrics.
Send me your stories of your environment and I'll summarize to the list. I'm looking for: - description of filer (model, os rev, storage, any other workload) - hosts that are moving the netnews (how many per filer, rw vs ro) - software (INN vs HighWind vs homebrew, number of nnrpd's per host) - users (number of real users, simultaneous users, how user population maps to nnrpd or equivalent (eg 4 users per nnrpd, 10 users, where does performance degrade)).
I'm exploring the most cost effective way to build a large news server farm, and I will post my findings on the web and send in the URL with the toaster summaries. Pointers to similar work appreciated also!
Cheers, _Strata
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