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From: "Steve Lalonde" <steve@enta.net>
To: "Stuart Wogsland" <stuart@tcccom.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How can I run INN faster?
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:40:56 -0000
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Well you could do what i do

delete the cancel folder every hour from cron

mv (path to articles)/cancel cancel.$$
rm -r (path to articles)/cancel.$$

that has given me about a 10 fold increase in speed and i can now keep up
with my feeds

its probably not the best way but it does work

Steve Lalonde
Systems Manager
ENTANET International Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Wogsland <stuart@tcccom.net>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: 30 January 1998 17:35
Subject: How can I run INN faster?


>I was introduced to Freebsd and Unix administration 9 months ago.  I have
>learned a lot, but I need some help from this group.  I need to run news a
>lot quicker on our system.  I have a couple of fullfeeds and my system
seems
>to refuse a high number of articles.  I've been reading the mailing list
and
>some people recommend I change the priority of innd.  We have taken the
>advice on stripping the drives, but I still don't get the performance I'm
>looking for.  Could someone please tell me what the process would be to
>change the priority of a process?  I've been reading about renice, tried
it,
>but still doesn't give me the result I'm looking for.  Any other tips to
>make my news servers that we receive the fullfeeds faster would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Stuart Wogsland
>stuart@tcccom.net
>
>