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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:50:56 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3264E840.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <53ott7$579@adv.IAEhv.nl> <53pm5c$5ks@twwells.com> <53u1ic$61i@flash.noc.best.net> <53ucuj$8qh@twwells.com> <540dos$asu@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Chris Fanning wrote: > > Doing roughly the same thing today on a P133 with 64MB RAM with > FreeBSD I get a peak of 10 art/sec. > FreeBSD-current supports async writes. You are likely going to see a bigger difference on small feeds because you can cache the entire directory structure. In order to mount a filesystem for async writes on -current you can do: mount -o async /dev/xxxx /fs You can change a filesystem from sync to async by: mount -u -o async /fs or from async to sync by: mount -u /fs Alot of people have run filesystems on FreeBSD -async with little trouble (even on crashes), but the usual message saying that you are playing with fire applies... BTW, Hopefully 2.2 will have an LFS to play with!!! (A filesystem relatively immune to corruption.) John