Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:53:54 -0700 (MST) From: Dave Andersen <angio@shell.aros.net> To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Cc: rashid@rk.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "active" (INND14unoff4,shared) gets corrupted Message-ID: <199603312053.NAA28795@shell.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <199603311506.BAA21645@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from michael butler at "Apr 1, 96 01:06:21 am"
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Baffling -- I use both sharedactive and MMAP and get perfect performance
out of both, especially sharedactive. We're using unoff2 with
sharedactive, and the memory usage is *heavenly*, and the readers are
100% reliable.
-Dave Andersen
Lo and behold, michael butler once said:
> Rashid Karimov writes:
>
> > I have INND1.4seunoff4 installed on 3 computers here -
> > 2 P6-200 and one P-166, all under FreeBSD 2.1-Release.
> > In one case(P-166) I use shared active patch and ccd driver
> > to max the HDs perf.
>
> Disable MMAP .. it doesn't work in 2.1-R and I have my doubts if it works
> in either -stable or -current. This _will_ corrupt your active file.
>
> I had no success with the shared-active patch with -stable .. occasionally a
> reader (nnrpd) will just sit there and chew ~100% of the available CPU. The
> same goes for the "robustness" patch for innxmit .. don't use it either. It
> displays very similar symptoms if the network connection is broken in an
> untimely fashion.
>
> I haven't had the time to check why both of these patches do simialr things
> but I suspect a rapid select call loop :-(
>
> michael
>
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