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From: dustin@bleu.west.spy.net. (Dustin Sallings)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN and ccd
Date: 1 May 1997 22:58:50 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
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In article <5ka5kf$4jp$2@news.fred.net>, kosack@fred.net writes:
> 
>   Has anyone used INN and the ccd for a news spool across 3+ disks?
> 
>   If so, how has reliability been?
> 
>   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.
> 
>   Can anyone comment?

	My home news feed (small) is under Net, no ccd, but I haven't
seen it lose any memory, just runs forever.  My ``real'' news feeds are
under BSDi and Digital Unix, the BSDi one is taking two feeds and
sending out lots of small ones, and it never has trouble.

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