From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 20:54:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA21010 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:54:20 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA20998 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:54:04 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id XAA24299; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:42:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:42:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: NEWS server To: Nathan Stratton cc: Sean Kelly , freebsd-isp@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Nathan Stratton wrote: > > can you provide more information on your disk configuration?? > > you may be getting hammered in disk activity. dmesg and df output as well > > would help. > > 1 gig conner for / and a 4.2 get segate hawk for spool sounds like you have enough disk available. (provided you expire news reasonably) but you must be getting hammered in disk seeks as the news comes in and get recorded in the various files--spool, history, outgoing, etc. you would be much better off with 4 1 gig drives rather than 1 4 gigger ;( two separate scsi chains would help as well. how about some 'iostat 3' numbers Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346