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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!pendragon!fullfeed!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!fonorola!uniserve!haven.uniserve.com!tom From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems w/inn on FreeBSD 2.0R Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 22:03:44 -0800 Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 19 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950209220125.10464B-100000@haven.uniserve.com> References: <3h301d$ams@earth.usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3h301d$ams@earth.usa.net> On 5 Feb 1995, Scotty bethke wrote: > Is anyone out there running a full newsfeed on a FREEBSD 2.0R system w/ > Inn1.4sec ? I'm not doing a full feed, only about 8,000 groups... > Some problems that Im having are that the feed runs GREAT all day long, > and then around 2:30am, when my news.daily runs, the Virt Memory system > fills up, and the kernal starts to kill processes. This happens, I would > imagine, because news.daily takes up so much processor time, and takes up > a lot of the innd time. It's not because of processor time, it about memory, and you need more. You have three options: config a sytem with much more swap space (my news machine has 16megs RAM and 40 megs of swap), add more RAM, or both. Tom