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From: mparson@roloc.bl.org (Michael Parson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN and ccd
Date: 1 May 1997 12:55:15 -0500
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In article <5ka5kf$4jp$2@news.fred.net>, Daniel Kosack <kosack@fred.net> wrote:
>  Has anyone used INN and the ccd for a news spool across 3+ disks?
>
>  If so, how has reliability been?
>
>  As far as INN itself under NetBSD, we are currently running FreeBSD
>2.2.1R without ccd and performance of INN 1.5.1 has been absolutely
>horrible.  We don't know if it's truly the nature of innd to grow to 132MB
>RAM and higher, or if it's malloc().  We have 6-8 rish news feeds coming
>in, and find ourselves restarting the server daily to free up resources.

Youch... something is definately wrong there... While I've never
run INN under *BSD, I have run it extensively under Linux and
Solaris 2.x.... With 12+ innfeed feeds and carrying 9000 groups,
my INN core gets to about 64M and will stay running for months w/o
restarting.

-- 
Michael Parson
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