From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 8 19:24:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21558 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 19:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [128.173.247.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21547; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 19:24:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11753; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 22:22:40 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199703090322.WAA11753@goof.com> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 22:22:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: tom@sdf.com, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <33222B1C.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 9, 97 04:14:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer writes: > 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) This system is a 2.1.6 installation. Do these recommendations change based on that? Thanks for the replies! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@goof.com http://www.goof.com/~mmead/