From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 16 17:11:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28900 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA28891 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id UAA03204; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:10:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id UAA20693; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:10:17 -0400 (EDT) To: Steve Ames cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: best news server config In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:37:27 CDT." <199709161437.JAA13809@ns1.cioe.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:10:17 -0400 Message-ID: <20690.874455017@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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