From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 19:18:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA13385 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digital.netvoyage.net (root@digital.netvoyage.net [205.162.154.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA13380 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bogawa@localhost) by digital.netvoyage.net (8.6.13/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA21375; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:17:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 19:17:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Ogawa at Work To: Robert Nicholson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sharedactive w/ INN (was Re: shmget()) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 30 Apr 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Doug White writes: > > Just out of interest... > > Does the sharedactive patch work with INN under FreeBSD? [...] Yes, it does, and pretty well. Brian Tao also has it running, I believe, as may Joe Greco (sp?). I had problems kicking up the values for the sharedactives correctly, so I ended up dumping that stuff altogether and running the following in my config file: options SYSVSHM #options "SHMMAXPGS=4096" # 4096kb (?) of sharable memory options SYSVSEM # enable for semaphores options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging Note that I commented out the SHMMAXPGS option--i was having problems figuring out the right size, so I got rid of it and it worked much better (the number off to the side is very wrong, I'm pretty sure). Note that the patch, I believe, defaults to presuming that you have < 15000 groups. Since this is only debatably true if you carry everything (e.g. lots and lots of regionals), you may need to change this. At the moment, on our server: news# wc -l /usr/local/news/lib/active 17316 /usr/local/news/lib/active and that works fine. Our machine really benefits from the sharedactive patches. Just today we had 50-60 readers on a 64 Meg machine, with what appears to be plenty of RAM left. bryan Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at..