Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:49:37 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Brian Tao <taob@risc.org> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Async vs sync (was Re: freebsd as a news server?) Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970310114937.0098b100@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970309121529.23819C-100000@alpha.risc.org> References: <3.0.1.32.19970309082411.00a70c90@sentex.net>
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At 12:42 PM 3/09/97 -0500, Brian Tao wrote: >On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> >> Also, what is the fastrm phase ? Is this a different method than the >> default used in expire to remove articles ? We are running a 2.1.5 >> release machine with innd 1.5.1 > <detailed explanation of how fastrm works deleted> Thank you very much for the detailed response! I tried this new method, and it does indeed work much faster! > The only caveat is that each filesystem is at risk of being >completely blown away if your server crashes during an expire, because >of the asynchronous disk updates. You might want to try it anyway to >see how much of a speed up you get. The delete updates do indeed blaze by compared to when its in synch mode. Do you personally run expirerm in async mode ? What about the over.view tree.. I have it on a separate drive... It too would benefit during expireover no ? Or am I playing with fire on that drive.... Thanks again, ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *
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