Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 04:14:36 +0100 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <33222B1C.41C67EA6@whistle.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970308175416.16035B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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Tom Samplonius wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, matthew c. mead wrote: > > Since then, expire has been taking over 18 hours to run. > > It seems to have started after the reboot that changed the > > kernel. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? What > > have others used for these limits to get better performance? > > Thanks in advance! > > You don't have enough disks to get really good performance. 18 hours > sounds about right for 45Gb on only 5 disks. > > I'm working on setting up a news server with a 11 disks (mostly 2 GB), > and according to my info, that barely enough. > > Also, putting AHC_TAGENABLE in your kernel may speed things up a bit > (see "man ahc"), if it doesn't crash your system. I really do suggest using -o noatime,async on mounted news partitions too (for 2.2) > > > -matt > > > > -- > > Matthew C. Mead > > > > mmead@goof.com > > http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ > > Tom
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