Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: deanf@www.durham.net (Dean Forester) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN 1.4 unoff4 running on FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199606080011.RAA07248@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960607195009.9035A-100000@www.durham.net> from "Dean Forester" at Jun 7, 96 08:03:48 pm
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Dean Forester wrote: > > Hi, > > The news spool is on one 4Gb drive, and the news home directory is on > another 1Gb drive on a different controller (IDE). IDE drives vs SCSI drive have been discussed at length here and this may start the screaming again. IDE uses much more cpu to do the same amount of i/o as compared to scsi. losts more interrupts == losts more context switches for less data each context switch. this does not improve performance. > What is the easiest way to add a new swap partition to this machine? I have > another 1.7Gb hard drive here that can be installed. scsi, i hope? due to a bug in the 2.1R install diskettes *DO NOT* use teh install diskettes to disklabel the new drive *UNLESS* you remove the other drives and boot from the floppy. <please repeat the above sentence twice more> when you disklablel the drive you can create another swap partition just like you did when you installed FreeBSD (swap spread over more disks is better anyways ;) consider moving the alt groups to the new drive. news hammers the hell out of disks. more drive will make the news system run fasters. beter 4 1GB drives than 1 4GB drives. use the search capaboilites of the www.freebsd.org web site to find old messages from joe greco about how to set up a hot news server. and tell joe thanks ;)) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/
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