From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 10 09:01:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02176 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:01:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02171 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA25484; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:04:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970310114937.0098b100@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:49:37 -0500 To: Brian Tao From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Async vs sync (was Re: freebsd as a news server?) Cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.1.32.19970309082411.00a70c90@sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > 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) *