From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 19 11:57:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25934 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:57:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bmccane.maxbaud.net ([208.155.166.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25311 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@bmccane.maxbaud.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by bmccane.maxbaud.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA00532; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:52:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from toor) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:52:00 -0600 (CST) From: Wm Brian McCane To: Martin Jangowski cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slooow expires (inn 1.5.1 and 1.7.2.insync1.1d) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Martin Jangowski wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded my system from 1.5.1 to 1.7.2.insync1.1d. > > The first time expire ran, I finally killed it 18 hours later. With > > 1.5.1 I was running an expire in under an hour. My history file is about > > 120M in size (nothing compared to some of yours I am sure). I tried to > > re-install 1.5.1, and now its expire is very slow also. I have not > > changed my kernel, or done a make world, but I am seeing dramatically > > slower times. > > I had the same problem. I'm using 1.5.1 with the "delayrm" parameter, and > building a new history takes about 10 min for 250 MB history-size.. > Suddenly, it took about 36 hours. I noticed, that the expire-proces, > usually using up to about 40 MB RAM, stayed at about 1.5 MB. > > I tried several things without avail. The last thing before giving up was > to rebuild the history index files with "makehistory -r -s ". After > that, expire took again about 10 min... > I had already thought of that, guess I should have mentioned it. The makehistory has been running for over 11 hours. I notice it is spending nearly ALL of its time in 'biord' according to top. This is the same thing I noticed with expire. brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message