Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:12:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Val <val@hcol.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does it mean biowai ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503115739.4969B-100000@ns.hcol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502200320.21194A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Hello again, On Sat, 2 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > > So I am not sure whether i need to go back to inn 1.4 which ran the expire > > process in about 10-15 minutes? (this one starts and never finishes). > > Now that you're running a full feed you'll find that expriy is just a > gigantic job. And processing the cancels. Well, I had a full feed before but expired articles after 1 day. Now it's set to 2 days. Before I ran expire ever 2 hours to make sure 9Gb disk doesn't overfill(it stayed at about 5Gb on average). Now when it starts it never finishes. I am actually thinking about zapping the /var/news spool and starting it all over, and keep them for 1 day at first. And then gradually increase. > biowait is `byte I/O wait', basically waiting for I/O to complete. This helps. Here is another question then. At first the process seems to run fine and creates a 60meg history file, but then slows down and I never say it go beyond 70 meg yet. The original history file is about 200meg. would this mean that it runs out of some resource and waits for i/o? I guess I would need more memory since cpu stays free for 70% of the time, and there is plenty of hdd space left. > Probably your hard drive is too slow. This is also a possibility, but i am stuck with them :( > 2x9GB isn't split enough -- the disks are running into one another. > > I told you to use a 4x4GB array :) > Well, I hope when I get it all worked out it will be 4x9GB since the goal is to keep the articles for 5 days. Thanks. val. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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