From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 17 20:24:54 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA12443 for current-outgoing; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:24:54 -0700 Received: from cardhu.cs.hut.fi (hsu@cardhu.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.95]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA12437 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:24:50 -0700 Received: by cardhu.cs.hut.fi id AA16519 (5.65c8/HUTCS-C 1.3 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org); Tue, 18 Apr 1995 06:23:25 +0300 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 06:23:25 +0300 From: Heikki Suonsivu Message-Id: <199504180323.AA16519@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> To: Joe Greco Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mmap bugs gone yet? In-Reply-To: <9504142236.AA02076@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199504141030.MAA18746@uriah.heep.sax.de> <9504142236.AA02076@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco writes: > > With the merged VM/buffer cache, i doubt it will buy too much to mmap > > the files at all. > > This was not true on my Sun 3/60. I never investigated to find out why, > however. It would seem to be writing the history file every 10 articles if you use ACT_READ option. I don't know if it writes all of it or just the modified parts. You can tune innd to write less often, but it doesn't seem to help much. We are in big trouble soon if the NNTP protocol isn't quickly revised, and we probably need a fully rewritten news system in less than a year... -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN