From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 20:05:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11478 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 20:05:01 -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 UAA11457 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 20:04:50 -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 UAA21510; Sat, 2 May 1998 20:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 20:04:46 -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 Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Val wrote: > 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:( Surprise. > 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). Now that you're running a full feed you'll find that expriy is just a gigantic job. And processing the cancels. biowait is `byte I/O wait', basically waiting for I/O to complete. > 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 :( Probably your hard drive is too slow. > 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. 2x9GB isn't split enough -- the disks are running into one another. I told you to use a 4x4GB array :) 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