Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!swatsun!hirai From: hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: NNTP or NFS for sharing news? Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 20:29:59 GMT References: <1990Jul18.233115.25423@phri.nyu.edu> Organization: Medieval Metaphysics Dept., Miskatonic U., Arkham, MA Lines: 23 At our site, we mount /var/spool/news via nfs [also running nn 6.4.9, rn patchlevel 47 and cnews 25-May-1990]. However, I'm sort of convinced that I should make my newsreaders read news via nntp now. There are couple of things that make me hesitate though: 1) Is there any overhead in having multiple nntp processes on the server running? We have a lot of news reading folk on our network and I assume (naively without looking at code) that each nntp news reader will have their own nntp process on the server. Our server only has 28M of memory. 2) I noticed a significant drop in response time when I read news via rrn compared to when I read news via nfs mounted /var/spool/news. Is this general or was it just my case? Halp! -- Eiji Hirai @ Mathematics Dept., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu | hirai@swarthmr.bitnet | uunet!hirai%cs.swarthmore.edu Copyright 1990 by Eiji Hirai. All Rights Reserved. Permission to reproduce or quote explicitly denied except on Usenet. I don't speak for Swarthmore College.