inn on Solaris X86 (Tunning)

[Russ Allbery]

Brad Groshok <brad at odyssey.on.ca> writes:

> I saw a message about a week ago about tunning a Solaris filesystem to
> improve INN disk I/O and can't for the life of me find that post.

> Question is:
> I'm running INN 2.2 snapshot from about a month ago, on a Solaris 2.7 X86
> Dual PIII system.
> 512Meg ram (will be 1Gig tomorrow sometime) (bunch of swapping going on)
> bout 160Gig of HD's across many drives split into 2 gig cnfs slices
> and 4 Symbios U2W controller ports

> I'm getting hammered with my /news/db directory accesses iostat -xtc 4
> shows that hd access to that drive is often 85% or higher (busy)

That would be history file reads and writes.  What's hiscachesize set to
in inn.conf?  If you have multiple feeds, I highly recommend setting it to
about 256 to allocate 256KB of memory as a hot history cache.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>