At 08:23 AM 12/22/00 -0800, you wrote: >Hi, I work at On-Ramp Indiana ( http://www.ori.net ) and our dnews server >is taking up entirely too much bandwidth... it will use all it can get >it's hands on, which would be abou 1.6 MB/sec. We have users trying to >dial up to us on the same line, and they're getting slow speeds. Is there >any way to slow down the news server? Yes, there is one setting you can add to dnews.conf max_speed 100000 Which limits any single incoming connection to 100K per second. However, this is not so simple, first if you have an incoming ihave feed that uses say 3 channels then you would need to set max_speed to 1/3 of what you want. Second, as soon as you do this your system starts loosing items randomly and if you are taking binary grouips with multi part messages loosing one message in 50 makes all 50 useless, so it's much more sensible to block the high volume groups if you don't have the bandwidth for them. You can find out which ones they are with tellnews stats_groups And with an ihave feed just ask your sending site not to send those groups, with a sucking feed you can block them in your me feed. Hope that helps. ChrisP.
