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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems w/inn on FreeBSD 2.0R
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 22:03:44 -0800
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On 5 Feb 1995, Scotty bethke wrote:

> Is anyone out there running a full newsfeed on a FREEBSD 2.0R system w/ 
> Inn1.4sec ?

  I'm not doing a full feed, only about 8,000 groups...

> Some problems that Im having are that the feed runs GREAT all day long, 
> and then around 2:30am, when my news.daily runs, the Virt Memory system 
> fills up, and the kernal starts to kill processes.  This happens, I would 
> imagine, because news.daily takes up so much processor time, and takes up 
> a lot of the innd time.

  It's not because of processor time, it about memory, and you need 
more.  You have three options:  config a sytem with much more swap space 
(my news machine has 16megs RAM and 40 megs of swap), add more RAM, or both.

Tom