| Subject: (7.20) I am not getting all the articles, but my feeder is sending a full feed |
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(From Carlos Castro <carlos@mci.net>) Either your feeder is not keeping up with its feeders, or you are not keeping up with the news flow. Disk IO is probably the biggest news bottleneck. Usually a full feed is more than a single Fast SCSI II disk can handle. Having 2 or more disks for the spool is suggested in either a striped configuration (using ODS for Solaris or MD for Linux) or a split spool. It is also recomended to have the disks spread out over multiple controllers. It is best to compile your system with MMAP if it can support it. Run innd at a priority of -5 or -10 and see if it performs better. Setting NICE_KIDS to 10 will also give innd more CPU on news servers heavily loaded with many nntplinks and nnrps. If you have many outgoing feeds you might want to keep the size of the out.going files relatively small.... It takes quite a bit of effort to write to the end of a very long file. ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:57 $ $Revision: 2.25 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |