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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 17 Oct 1996 09:50:52 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
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References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <543urf$ar3@flash.noc.best.net> <544bat$41o@twwells.com> <5453hf$7n7@itchy.serv.net>
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:In article <5453hf$7n7@itchy.serv.net>, Sean T. Lamont . <zeno@serv.net> wrote:
:>In article <544bat$41o@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote:
:>>In article <543urf$ar3@flash.noc.best.net>,
:>>Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote:
:>>One other thing: you simply cannot run streaming and nonstreaming
:>>feeds into the same server. Or, you can, but the nonstreaming
:>>feeds will get so far behind as to be pointless. Even with fast
:>>disks, this will be true....
:>
:>
:>this isn't my experience. we were running non-streaming nntplink to a
:>news server that was about 30ms away from us, and we were able to keep
:>current ; I think they have 4 or 5 other feeds.
:>
:>I have, however, had some problems with streaming feeds starving out
:>nnrp connects ; it seems that these take up all of the innd process's
:>resources and it takes a while to fork off the nnrpd's. (This problem
:>can be fixed by running innd on a non-standard port like 118 and running
:>in.nnrpd directly from inetd.) Your best bet of course is to stream into
:>a feed system and not stream into a separate read system.
:>--
:>Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
:>- Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development -
:>email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net
:>"...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson
:
Hmm.. an interesting observation. I am currently running a single
streaming feed from the newsfeeds machine to the newsreaders machine.
I did have problems about a year ago, but a quick hack to run the nnrpd's
nice +15 over the innd fixed the problem. I think it may just be a
matter of cpu priorities. If innd gets the cpu when it needs it, the
nnrpd startup is < 3 seconds at peak periods.
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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