From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 10 13:14:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA24893 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from vex.net (vex.net [207.207.191.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA24888 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from vex.net(really [207.207.191.193]) by vex.net via sendmail with smtp id for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:14:22 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.90 1996-Dec-4 #4 built 1997-Jan-8) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:14:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Mike Tancsa cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Async vs sync (was Re: freebsd as a news server?) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970310114937.0098b100@sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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"