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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!in1.nntp.cais.net!news2.cais.com!news.vni.net!cnordin From: cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: News Server (INN) and news.daily Date: 4 Nov 1996 18:10:55 -0500 Organization: Virtual Networks Lines: 89 Message-ID: <cnordin.847148614@news.vni.net> References: <55l4si$ov3@news1.anet-dfw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hq.vni.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) If you let a BSDI hard drive go over 90% it is going to optimize for space rather than speed. If you turn down your expire so you have more room and less directory space, you'll find that other expires take shorter times to run (the first will really be a b****) move your /var/news/etc off onto your /var/partition, that way your etc/history/active stuff will be running off of a different drive than the news. I'd suggest you mount that /tmp dir on your /var as well, using the memory for better stuff. Maybe you need to restart your innd so that it can properly work right, or maybe your innd is already throttled by innwatch. Take your time now to look at each problem very carefully. Taking the time now will save you later. Expect to spend alot of time tuning your news server. Hope and pray that you get it right quickly and can leave it alone for weeks at a time. Don't try to make some perfectly fast machine, work on making it perfectly stable instead. Re-compile your INN software after learning about BSDI and the INN code. Good Luck. david@news1.anet-dfw.com () writes: >Greetings, >I installed bsd/os 2.1, and have installed all the bsd released patches >for 2.1. I am using this particular box as a dedicated news server. >The machine is a P133 with 128Meg EDO RAM. I am using a Adaptec 2940UW >scsi controller and all UW scsi hard drives. >My problem is this. News.daily simply takes forever to run, and now the >"expire" portion of news.daily is not working due to the fact that it >"Can't reserve server". Due to this, I have to manually delete articles, >which of course is not good since that will cause problems with the >history files. I have not modified the news.daily script, and still I >cannot get the program to run under 14 hours. Here is the layout of my >hard drives.: >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/sd0a 79423 10988 64463 15% / >/dev/sd0h 397183 238571 138752 63% /usr >/dev/sd0g 1428878 318666 1038768 23% /var >mfs:25 15871 8 15069 0% /tmp >/dev/sd1a 3952264 3526694 227956 94% /var/news >/dev/sd2a 3953201 3238208 517332 86% /var/news/spool/alt >/dev/sd3a 3952264 3531057 223593 94% /var/news/spool/alt/binaries >Perhaps someone has a better way of setting up these spools to give >better performance. Also, what is the best way to manipulate the overview >database entries? >Thanks for any help, >David -- Jobs - Graphic Arts - Commercial Production -> http://studio.vni.net/jobs/ Virtual Networks Premier Internet Services cnordin@vnii.net Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Metro http://www.vnii.net/ Indiana Indiana Indiana Washington DC Washington DC Washington DC Metro http://www.vni.net/ Virtual Networks Incorporated Virtual Networks of Indiana, Incorporated Jobs - Graphic Arts - Commercial Production -> http://studio.vni.net/jobs/