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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: INN and ccd Date: 1 May 1997 12:16:04 -0700 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5kaq5k$2qa@cynic.portal.ca> References: <5ka5kf$4jp$2@news.fred.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5879 In article <5ka5kf$4jp$2@news.fred.net>, Daniel Kosack <kosack@fred.net> wrote: > Has anyone used INN and the ccd for a news spool across 3+ disks? > If so, how has reliability been? Yes. CCD works great. However, if a disk fails you've now got three times the problem you'd have had otherwise. :-) I just went back to separate partitions for various parts of the hierarchies, though this wastes more space. > As far as INN itself under NetBSD, we are currently running FreeBSD >2.2.1R without ccd and performance of INN 1.5.1 has been absolutely >horrible. We don't know if it's truly the nature of innd to grow to 132MB >RAM and higher, or if it's malloc(). We have 6-8 rish news feeds coming >in, and find ourselves restarting the server daily to free up resources. You definitely have a problem there. I've got a similar sized system, from the sounds of it, running on a 96 MB NetBSD 1.1 machine, and my server generally hovers in the 20-30 MB range. Do you have outgoing feeds? Are some of them backlogging? You can use the S option in your newsfeeds file to limit the amount of backlog innd will keep in memory. That saved me a dozen or more MB. If you're suspicous of malloc, you could always rebuild the server and link it with -lgnumalloc, to see if that makes any difference. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.