Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:59:42 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970308175416.16035B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199703090118.UAA10981@goof.com>
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On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, matthew c. mead wrote: > I've recently configured a 200Mhz PPro on a TYAN motherboard > with 128M ram and 45G of ultra wide scsi drives (5 9G drives > total) hanging off an Adaptec 3940UW. Anyway, I initially had > forgotten to up the per user process limit and open files limit. > This thing's running innd. Anyway, I started getting messages > about too many open files and no more processes (when many users > connected at once). So I changed CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX to 1024 > each. Since then, expire has been taking over 18 hours to run. > It seems to have started after the reboot that changed the > kernel. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? What > have others used for these limits to get better performance? > Thanks in advance! You don't have enough disks to get really good performance. 18 hours sounds about right for 45Gb on only 5 disks. I'm working on setting up a news server with a 11 disks (mostly 2 GB), and according to my info, that barely enough. Also, putting AHC_TAGENABLE in your kernel may speed things up a bit (see "man ahc"), if it doesn't crash your system. > -matt > > -- > Matthew C. Mead > > mmead@goof.com > http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ Tom
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