Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:14:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@vex.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Async vs sync (was Re: freebsd as a news server?) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970310161154.5828D-100000@vex.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970310114937.0098b100@sentex.net>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for the detailed response! I tried this new
> method, and it does indeed work much faster!
The fastrm utility is optimized to remove a large number of files
from the same directory, which is why news.daily sorts the list of
files before passing it to fastrm.
> 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....
I don't think you'll see as much of an improvement doing
expireovers, because you're only talking about one overviews file per
newsgroups, versus thousands of articles per newsgroup.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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