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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Argh! BSDI/News Problem... help kindly requested Date: 12 Jan 1996 14:10:31 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4d5q4n$63c@hops.entertain.com> References: <30f54d00.11463334@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp007.entertain.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <30f54d00.11463334@news>, rhof@netinc.ca (Robert Hof) says: > >I think I might be in need of a little expert advice here: > >I'm running a BSDI2.0.1 system on a dx2-66 w/ 32MB ram. > >I'm receiving news at about 100msgs/160sec, and my provider says I >should be receiving more... much more! My feed should be about 100,000 >msgs/day, or so they say. However, at the speed I'm bringing them in, >I never catch up. In fact, doing the math results in me getting about >54,000 per day. > >The question: WHY?! My connection speed is not the problem. The load >average on the news machine rarely goes above 0.50. The only thing I >can think of is that the SCSI controller might be too slow. It's an >Adaptec 1542CF. Here's my nntpsend.ctl file, in case it helps! > Have you got all the news going to one hard drive? If so, it may be that your drive can't handle the load. Can you split news (say, from alt.binaries down) onto a second SCSI drive?