Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:10:17 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best news server config Message-ID: <20690.874455017@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:37:27 CDT." <199709161437.JAA13809@ns1.cioe.com>
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Steve Ames wrote in message ID <199709161437.JAA13809@ns1.cioe.com>: > I'm having some serious problems with our newsfeed. The bottom line seems > to be that our server just isn't keeping up with the feed. The server > is a Pentium 150 with 96M of memory. I have two 4G SCSI drives bound > together with ccd (interleave 65536 as recommended in the ccd man page). > > I have any the actual news spool mounted with async and noatime. The partitio > n > with the history and active files is mounted async. > > I am using inn 1.5.1 compiled using MMAP. > > Everything seems quite sprightly. However when I check the news stats from > one of my feeds (sprintlink) it shows that they are throwing about 65% of > the articles away before trying to send them to me. I also have a constant > backlog of about 9700 articles (cap being 10,000 before they start throwing > away articles instead of spooling). I'll give you a clue. Put in Joe Greco's inn timer patches and check out the ammount of time you spend waiting for history lookups. I can almost GUARENTEE that unless you have a RAID array for your history drive, that that is your bottleneck. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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