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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!not-for-mail From: nick@eunet.ie (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:38:55 +0100 Organization: EUnet Ireland Network Operations Lines: 16 Message-ID: <542s1v$i52@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <53u1ic$61i@flash.noc.best.net> <53ucuj$8qh@twwells.com> <540dos$asu@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> <542q0e$s87@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ollivier Robert (Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr) said: : mount -u -o async /news : [...get articles...] : [...run expire...] : mount -u -o sync /news : You need 2.1.0 or later for the async flag. The async mode is more : aggressive in 2.2-CURRENT. I'm running async on a ccd system with 6 barracuda 2.1Gb F/W disks. The async flag makes quite a difference, but it gets pretty ugly if the machine crashes. Nick -- Nick Hilliard -- EUnet Ireland network operations centre