Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!pacbell.com!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!kordash From: kordash@mitre.org (John Kordash) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: How much of a load is nntp? Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 19:09:41 GMT References: <1990Nov15.155532.3384@ssd.kodak.com> <1990Nov16.220048.22474@engin.umich.edu> <1990Nov17.054512.13632@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <1990Nov18.035402.11348@decuac.dec.com> <1990Nov18.173733.21964@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: kordash@linus.mitre.org Organization: Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA. Lines: 26 In-reply-to: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu's message of 18 Nov 90 17:37:33 GMT In article <1990Nov18.173733.21964@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes: Most of the news reading done here is through NFS. It is generally faster and since nfsd's are always running and the disk gets acessed one way or the other, I feel that using nfs to read news is better than using nntp. Less resources in the way of memory, context switching, etc. being used. This topic came up a couple of weeks (or has it been more than a month now?) ago. However, to be best of my recollection, there wasn't and real good answer to the NFS vs. NNTP question. Does anyone have any hard facts/numbers to support either claim? What about the UDP(NFS)/TCP(NNTP) issue? Comments?? (or answers :-) -John -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Kordash kordash@linus.mitre.org The Mitre Corporation or Burlington Rd, Bedford MA 01748 ...!linus!kordash (617)-271-2016 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------