patrick@thiazi.cs.cornell.edu (Pat Stephenson) (11/17/88)
I need some help from battle-scarred news administrators out there! Given a multi-segment LAN where news is available on a machine that runs NNTP and has NFS, are there any performance tradeoffs in choosing to read news via NNTP (using rrn or gnews) or NFS (ie remote mounting the spool directory and using rn). I am particulary interested in 1) Effects on the network load 2) Effects on the server load 3) Any *practical experience* people have in these matters. Please respond via mai. If there's enough interest, I'll summarize to the net. Many thanks! Pat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pat Stephenson Computer Science Department pat@cs.cornell.edu Cornell University 607-255-8597 Ithaca NY 14850
jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) (11/21/88)
In article <22661@cornell.UUCP> patrick@cs.cornell.edu (Pat Stephenson) writes:
]Given a multi-segment LAN where news is available on a machine that
]runs NNTP and has NFS, are there any performance tradeoffs in choosing
]to read news via NNTP (using rrn or gnews) or NFS (ie remote mounting
]the spool directory and using rn). I am particulary interested in
] 1) Effects on the network load
] 2) Effects on the server load
] 3) Any *practical experience* people have in these matters.
I'm also interested in the answers concerning NNTP versus RFS versus NFS.
That is, I want to get an evaluation concerning all *3* possibilities.
You may mail me for specific RFS figures.
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