Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:52:00 -0600 (CST) From: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.maxbaud.net> To: Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slooow expires (inn 1.5.1 and 1.7.2.insync1.1d) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980319135036.502A-100000@bmccane.maxbaud.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.980319194653.21873B-100000@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
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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 <size>". 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
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