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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!zippy.cais.net!news.vni.net!cnordin From: cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Argh! BSDI/News Problem... help kindly requested Date: 13 Jan 1996 01:47:20 -0500 Organization: Virtual Networks Lines: 66 Message-ID: <cnordin.821515285@news.vni.net> References: <30f54d00.11463334@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: hq.vni.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) how much are your disks running? if you are running on only one disk, that is probably a contribution. split it into two or four disks (the more the better for speed) and you'll be doing much better. the first xtra disk might just handle the history files and the overview files. that keeps you from having to do the strange things you need to do with linked (cross posted) files. news thrashes the disks because of access time, NOT throughput. Most of the articles are tiny (approx 2.5K) and the time is wasted in moving the head over the disk. also, make sure you have plenty of memory, since swapping is a big sucker of resources and further pulls on your disks. 32MB is definitely short for a full feed. try 64 or be nice to yourself and get the 128MB A full feed is probably 300,000 messages a day and likely uses up between 64-128K of your link. rhof@netinc.ca (Robert Hof) writes: >I think I might be in need of a little expert advice here: >I'm running a BSDI2.0.1 system on a dx2-66 w/ 32MB ram. >I'm receiving news at about 100msgs/160sec, and my provider says I >should be receiving more... much more! My feed should be about 100,000 >msgs/day, or so they say. However, at the speed I'm bringing them in, >I never catch up. In fact, doing the math results in me getting about >54,000 per day. >The question: WHY?! My connection speed is not the problem. The load >average on the news machine rarely goes above 0.50. The only thing I >can think of is that the SCSI controller might be too slow. It's an >Adaptec 1542CF. Here's my nntpsend.ctl file, in case it helps! >TIA, >Rob/NET >## $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $ >## Control file for nntpsend. >## Format: >## site:fqdn:max_size:[<args...>] >## <site> The name used in the newsfeeds file for this >site; >## this determines the name of the batchfile, >etc. >## <fqdn> The fully-qualified domain name of the site, >## passed as the parameter to innxmit. >## <size> Size to truncate batchfile if it gets too big; >## see trunc(1). >## <args> Other args to pass to innxmit >## Everything after the pound sign is ignored. >onet:hone.onet.on.ca:1m:-T1800 -t300