From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 9 05:35:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA22024 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 05:35:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA22017 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 05:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id IAA22209; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 08:37:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970309082411.00a70c90@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 08:24:11 -0500 To: Brian Tao From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Async vs sync (was Re: freebsd as a news server?) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199703090118.UAA10981@goof.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My news.daily script would mount -u the spool filesystems async >just before the fastrm phase, then sync the disks and remount them >synchronously. I was seeing upwards of 1000 unlinks per second on the >async filesystem, or 40-50 times faster than a sync filesystem, IIRC. Hi, two quick questions around this... To do what your are describing above, are you saying add something like sync mount -u -o async /usr/local/newsspool sync mount -u -o async /usr/local/newsspool/over.view sync mount -u -o async /usr/local/newsspool/alt/binaries sync . . . and so on... /usr/local/news/bin/expire -s -v1 >>/var/log/expire.log sync mount -u -o sync /usr/local/newsspool . . . and so on... Also, what is the fastrm phase ? Is this a different method than the default used in expire to remove articles ? We are running a 2.1.5 release machine with innd 1.5.1 Thanks, ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *