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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: MMAP Troubles (Joerg?)
To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:13:36 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199701062036.OAA29610@solaria.sol.net> from Joe Greco at "Jan 6, 97 02:36:48 pm"
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> I don't know if it's wise to mount async.  I am doing it on my new pet
> box, newsfeeds.sol.net, and I have seen peaks of 44 articles per second
> (INN1.5, FreeBSD 2.2C, disks async, PPro200, 192MB RAM) compared to
> newspump.sol.net's record of 16 (INN1.4UNOFF4, FreeBSD 2.1.5R, disks
> sync, P133, 256MB RAM).  But I am a little paranoid that a crash may
> not come right back.  :-)
>
> File deletions are so quick, they blow my socks off.

I was seeing 4MB/sec deletions during an expire last night.. Expiring took 20
minutes, I was happy :)  Granted it wasnt a full newsspool, only about 6GB, but
still :)

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich