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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!gabby.ShireNet.com!bilbo.ShireNet.com!larry From: larry@bilbo.ShireNet.com (Larry Himes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: news 'history' file is HUGE Date: 18 Mar 1996 14:08:27 GMT Organization: ShireNet Communications Systems, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ijqos$d7@frodo.ShireNet.com> References: <4i34od$ctl@pegasus.starlink.com> <4i3ni6$qsu@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> <4i6te0$l7r@vanbc.wimsey.com> <4ih7t8$h2k@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bilbo.shirenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Karl Renaut (krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com) wrote: : I have limit datasize 64m and limit memoryuse 64m in my news.daily script and : yes this does speed up expire a lot! However, my comment about more : memory stands! I use every byte of my 128meg and more, its not unusual : to see 32+ megs of swap space in use. Of course, I suppose much of this : is from all the nnrpd monsters that are running! : Anybody know a technique that I could use to split the load of my news : server across multiple machines? Can I NFS mount the /var/news/spool : tree on another machine? If I remember the FAQ correctly, no. How do large ISP's handle not only a full news : feed, but hundreds of people requesting articles? This doesn't apply to ShireNet, but I believe large providers use multiple servers - one to take the newsfeed, and other(s) to handle the nnrpd load. I know CAIS (our immediate upstream provider) does this. Larry Himes.