From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 8 20:41:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24819 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:41:25 -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 UAA24813; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:41:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA12069; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 23:39:17 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199703090439.XAA12069@goof.com> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 23:39:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, tom@sdf.com, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703090422.OAA28301@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 9, 97 02:52:50 pm 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 Michael Smith writes: > matthew c. mead stands accused of saying: > > > > > > 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! > No async support in 2.1.6, but I believe that noatime is supported. Hmm. No wonder I don't see any improvement in 2.1.6 mounting async and building the kernel. > You should _really_ go search the archives of the -hackers list for > postings from Joe Greco regarding big news servers. In particular, > you are using (probably) slow disks, your layout is likely to be > wrong, and you don't have enough SCSI busses 8) Hmm, the disks are far from slow. They're 9G micropolis SCSI-II fast, "ultra wide" disks. There is, however, one bus. There's only 5 drives on it. I'm interested in figuring out what's wrong with the layout. I've got the striping factor set to 255 blocks (per a suggestion in the docs for ccd). I'll try to have a looksee at the archives of -hackers. Would be nice to be able to get mailbox file format archives, though. :-) Thanks for your reply! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@goof.com http://www.goof.com/~mmead/