From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 8 19:22:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21411 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 19:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21406; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 19:22:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA27653; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 19:17:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <33222B1C.41C67EA6@whistle.com> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 04:14:36 +0100 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Samplonius CC: "matthew c. mead" , isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, matthew c. mead wrote: > > 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. I really do suggest using -o noatime,async on mounted news partitions too (for 2.2) > > > -matt > > > > -- > > Matthew C. Mead > > > > mmead@goof.com > > http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ > > Tom