From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 3 12:04:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07630 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 12:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07595 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 12:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA22570; Sun, 3 May 1998 12:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:04:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Val cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does it mean biowai ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 May 1998, Val wrote: > Hello again, > > On Sat, 2 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > > So I am not sure whether i need to go back to inn 1.4 which ran the expire > > > process in about 10-15 minutes? (this one starts and never finishes). > > > > Now that you're running a full feed you'll find that expriy is just a > > gigantic job. And processing the cancels. > Well, I had a full feed before but expired articles after 1 day. Now it's > set to 2 days. Before I ran expire ever 2 hours to make sure 9Gb disk > doesn't overfill(it stayed at about 5Gb on average). Now when it starts > it never finishes. I am actually thinking about zapping the /var/news > spool and starting it all over, and keep them for 1 day at first. And then > gradually increase. Not a bad idea. > > biowait is `byte I/O wait', basically waiting for I/O to complete. > This helps. Here is another question then. At first the process seems to > run fine and creates a 60meg history file, but then slows down and I never > say it go beyond 70 meg yet. The original history file is about 200meg. > would this mean that it runs out of some resource and waits for i/o? I > guess I would need more memory since cpu stays free for 70% of the time, > and there is plenty of hdd space left. You said your interleave was set at 64k. Perhaps you need to find a better number, or manually split the newsgroups out to their own disks? I don't run a nameserver, I'm only relaying what I've seen over the years. > > Probably your hard drive is too slow. > This is also a possibility, but i am stuck with them :( Sigh... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message