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From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.024342.1387@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 18 Jun 91 02:43:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.210644.4897@shaman.com> <7360@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM> <1991Jun10.144434.21216@m2xenix.psg.com>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services
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In article <1991Jun10.144434.21216@m2xenix.psg.com>, randy@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) writes:
> As to the subject of the message, I think they're continually upgrading.

We currently have one machine handling nothing but the UUCP traffic
(with 100+ modems on it), 2 machines handling the mail, 4 machines for
news (1 for nntp, 1 for batching, 2 for compressing), and 1 machine for
the nameserver.  Recent additions have been the 2nd machine for mail &
the 3 machines for news.

The current bottleneck (its always changing) is the uucp machine,
especially late at night when everyone is calling it.  Unfortunately, to
upgrade that large monolithic machine to a larger monolithic machine is
going to cost something like $150,000- plus.

Instead what we are doing is working on rewritting uucp to make it run
across multiple machines.  This is not an easy task.  The current
estimate of when this will be done is sometime later this summer.  In
the meantime, we are looking at other hacks to make things better then
they currently are.

Adding additional machines for mail is easy.  Its almost as easy to add
additional machines for news.  The nameserver is unloaded & a 2nd
nameserver would be easy to add, if needed.

	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)