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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!news.enterprise.net!starship From: apc@enterprise.net (Adrian Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,news.software.b,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: INN 1.4unoff4, SharedActive Patch & BSDi 2.1?? Date: Thu, 23 May 96 22:19:48 GMT Organization: Enterprise PLC - Internet Services Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4o2oig$p7v@news.enterprise.net> References: <4nnqim$9sm@news.abs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: starship.enterprise.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3818 news.software.b:17869 news.software.nntp:22965 In article <4nnqim$9sm@news.abs.net>, howardl@u1.abs.net (Howard Leadmon) wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone here has tried to get the INN 1.4unoff4 >nnrpd working with the shared-active patches?? From what I can see >this works fine on SysV platforms, and BSDi 2.1 seems to have the >required shared memory calls if I include the -lipc library during the >compile process. > >I thought things were looking good as the code compiled and linked >OK, but when I try and run it with the shared active patch installed >when you connect to port 119 it just complains that the NNTP server is >not available. So needless to say something isn't quite right.. > >If anyone has this working, or has any clues please let me know. We have >a lot of online readers at any given time (like most ISP's), and it >appears we could save a lot of RAM with this patch installed... Well the shared active patch definitely does work with BSDI 2.1 and it does make a very worthwhile difference in performance and particularly resource availability - particularly RAM. We are using INN 1.4unoff4 on our BSDI 2.1 RAID5 news server which is always heavily loaded (we are ISP's) as well as the other official INN 1.4unnof4 patches all without problem. I am not our newsadmin and so cannot assist much further, but I do suggest you take a look at Dave Barr's INN Page: http://www.math.psu.edu/barr/INN.html Good luck. -- Adrian. ___________________________________ Adrian Cooper | apc@enterprise.net Enterprise PLC | http://www.enterprise.net Leading Internet Services in the British Isles.