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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!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!isclient.merit.edu!izzy.net!INET_PRIME.comshare.com!usenet From: stormyb@izzy.net (Patrick S. Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Argh! BSDI/News Problem... help kindly requested Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:53:32 GMT Organization: Comshare Inc. Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4dh75m$cv1@INET_PRIME.comshare.com> References: <30f54d00.11463334@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.211.100.165 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 rhof@netinc.ca (Robert Hof) wrote: >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 I am having the same problems over here. We a carring a full feed, but it never catches up. We have a T-1 to our provider, and the machiene is a Twin P/5133 with 256mb of memory, and a BT-946c PCI SCSI-2 Controlller, and the drives are 7200rpm 9gig SEAGATES..... I can't figure the problem.... Patrick S. Roberts (NTT) Internet Consultant