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Date:      	Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:08:14 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca>
To:        Michael Beckmann <petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INN history file and disk I/O
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.960915200359.8860F-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199609152350.QAA04166@salsa.gv.ssi1.com>

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On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Don Lewis wrote:

> On Sep 15,  9:38pm, Michael Beckmann wrote:
> } Subject: INN history file and disk I/O
> } In general, the performance of this system is good; I see about 5 - 10 %
> } cpu load and almost no swap usage. I get immediate response from the
> } system, except when I try to telnet to the nntp port. nntp readers simply
> } time out; it takes forever until the INN prompt appears, if it appears at
> } all. This situation changes when I throttle the INN. Then I get the INN
> } prompt immediately.

How long is forever?  10 seconds?  30 seconds?  five minutes?

> 
> Are you receiving any streaming feeds?  There are problems with INN that
> cause it become unresponsive because it can be monopolized by a streaming
> feed.

...and if that is the problem, and you are running 1.4unoff4, applying the
patch available at
ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/INN/patches/apb-stream-prio.patch could
possibly help.





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