Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:08:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca> To: Michael Beckmann <petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960915200359.8860F-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <199609152350.QAA04166@salsa.gv.ssi1.com>
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On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Don Lewis wrote: > On Sep 15, 9:38pm, Michael Beckmann wrote: > } Subject: INN history file and disk I/O > } In general, the performance of this system is good; I see about 5 - 10 % > } cpu load and almost no swap usage. I get immediate response from the > } system, except when I try to telnet to the nntp port. nntp readers simply > } time out; it takes forever until the INN prompt appears, if it appears at > } all. This situation changes when I throttle the INN. Then I get the INN > } prompt immediately. How long is forever? 10 seconds? 30 seconds? five minutes? > > Are you receiving any streaming feeds? There are problems with INN that > cause it become unresponsive because it can be monopolized by a streaming > feed. ...and if that is the problem, and you are running 1.4unoff4, applying the patch available at ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/INN/patches/apb-stream-prio.patch could possibly help.
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