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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN and ccd
Date: 1 May 1997 12:16:04 -0700
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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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?

Yes.  CCD works great. However, if a disk fails you've now got
three times the problem you'd have had otherwise. :-) I just went
back to separate partitions for various parts of the hierarchies,
though this wastes more space.

>  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.

You definitely have a problem there. I've got a similar sized
system, from the sounds of it, running on a 96 MB NetBSD 1.1 machine,
and my server generally hovers in the 20-30 MB range.

Do you have outgoing feeds? Are some of them backlogging? You can
use the S option in your newsfeeds file to limit the amount of
backlog innd will keep in memory. That saved me a dozen or more
MB.

If you're suspicous of malloc, you could always rebuild the server
and link it with -lgnumalloc, to see if that makes any difference.

cjs
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Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite myst, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.