From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 09:44:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06314 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.hcol.net (root@ns.hcol.net [205.152.99.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06240 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from val@hcol.net) Received: from ns.hcol.net (val@smtp.hcol.net [205.152.99.19]) by ns.hcol.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA26834 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:44:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:44:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Val To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: what does it mean biowai ?? In-Reply-To: <35489953.1E071F1D@okstate.edu> 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 Hi, i did a little upgrade of the news server. It used to be a partial news server running freebsd 2.2.2 and inn 1.4 i think. it had only one scsi hdd. Now we have a ccd drive with interleave factor of 65536 i think (or whatever is recommended by the man page for the news server). I also upgraded the system to ver 2.2.6 and compiled port inn 1.7 Everything seems to be ok at first ,when the system goes into expire stage to expire the articles it doesn't seem to work fast enough:( here is what top says: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 531 root -6 0 20736K 15288K biowai 120:55 19.99% 19.99% expire 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). or is it my hdd's not working fast enough? I think if soome would give a hint what that state of biowai means it would help because it seems that most of the time expire spends in this biowai state :( Oh yeah, the hardware is: 2 9Gb seagate baracuda drives(8gb of each is used for ccd drive), ncr scsi controller, 64Mb ram, 233intel pent. TIA. val. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message