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Date:      Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:03:50 +0000
From:      Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   slow news server
Message-ID:  <3487DF96.62319AC4@cablenet.net>

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I have a news reader machine that is unable to keep up with the a 
single incoming feed.  The feeder machine is running diablo and a large
backlog is building up in the outbound queue.  Both the feeder and the
reader are similar systems

System: 
	PPro 200MHZ 256MB RAM
	Adaptec 3940
	2 GB SCSI system disk
	512 MB swap
	8 x 2GB SCSI disks ccd'd to make up spool partition
		4 disks on channel A and 4 on channel B
	history (125 MB) lives on the system disk

server: innd 1.5.1

	innd runs with a priority of -6 and seems to spend most of it's
	time in biowait state.

The system is 95% idle most of the time.  There is a crossover cable
between the feeder machine and the reader machine so they have a 
private network and I'm able to transfer data via ftp at ~6 MBs between
the two machines.

I don't understand why the news isn't flying in.  Does anyone have any
ideas ?

regards
damian

-- 
*    Damian Hamill   M.D.       damian@cablenet.net
* CableNet & The Landscape Channel
* http://www.cablenet.net/   http://www.landscapetv.com/



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