From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 5 03:07:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA14398 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 03:07:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from axe.cablenet.net (axe.cablenet.net [194.154.36.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA14392 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 03:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from damian@axe.cablenet.net) Received: from axe (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axe.cablenet.net (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA07205 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:03:51 GMT Message-ID: <3487DF96.62319AC4@cablenet.net> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:03:50 +0000 From: Damian Hamill Organization: CableNet Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: slow news server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/