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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!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.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: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:18:25 GMT Organization: Comshare Inc. Lines: 66 Message-ID: <4djeuo$88m@INET_PRIME.comshare.com> References: <30f54d00.11463334@news> <4dh75m$cv1@INET_PRIME.comshare.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.211.100.165 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Figured it out. My ISP's crontab was fire'ing off an innxmit every 30 minuites, it would send for 30 and then would fire off another concurrent innxmit, and they would both freeze, to fix this he put an 29minute timeoute in the innxmit strings.... Is this normal innxmit behaivour? Patrick S. Roberts (NTT) Internet Consultant stormyb@izzy.net (Patrick S. Roberts) wrote: >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