From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 3 10:12:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22106 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 10:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.hcol.net (root@ns.hcol.net [205.152.99.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22097 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 10:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from val@hcol.net) Received: from ns.hcol.net (val@smtp.hcol.net [205.152.99.19]) by ns.hcol.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA05153; Sun, 3 May 1998 12:12:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:12:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Val To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does it mean biowai ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello again, On Sat, 2 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > > So I am not sure whether i need to go back to inn 1.4 which ran the expire > > process in about 10-15 minutes? (this one starts and never finishes). > > Now that you're running a full feed you'll find that expriy is just a > gigantic job. And processing the cancels. Well, I had a full feed before but expired articles after 1 day. Now it's set to 2 days. Before I ran expire ever 2 hours to make sure 9Gb disk doesn't overfill(it stayed at about 5Gb on average). Now when it starts it never finishes. I am actually thinking about zapping the /var/news spool and starting it all over, and keep them for 1 day at first. And then gradually increase. > biowait is `byte I/O wait', basically waiting for I/O to complete. This helps. Here is another question then. At first the process seems to run fine and creates a 60meg history file, but then slows down and I never say it go beyond 70 meg yet. The original history file is about 200meg. would this mean that it runs out of some resource and waits for i/o? I guess I would need more memory since cpu stays free for 70% of the time, and there is plenty of hdd space left. > Probably your hard drive is too slow. This is also a possibility, but i am stuck with them :( > 2x9GB isn't split enough -- the disks are running into one another. > > I told you to use a 4x4GB array :) > Well, I hope when I get it all worked out it will be 4x9GB since the goal is to keep the articles for 5 days. Thanks. val. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message