cnfs cycbuff problem

[Kevin McKinnon]

> Brian Kantor <brian at UCSD.Edu> writes:
> 
> > As a data point, 'cnfsstat -a' on my news transit system ran for about
> > 88 minutes elapsed time before I killed it.  It hadn't come up with an
> > answer yet at that point.
> 
> > Ok, so I have a 400MB history file and two cnfs buffers of 16GB each it
> > had to wander around in, but still...  (BSD/OS 4.1,
> > inn-STABLE_2_2-2000-03-22_03-07, about 2.6 GB/hour incoming)

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 700MB history file, 14 1GB cycbuffs, and cnfsstat -a finished nearly
> immediately for me and found the oldest article in every case.

For comparison with different hardware, mine took about 40 seconds 
(800MB history file, 146 1GB cycbuffs), and also found the oldest in 
every one.  Running Linux 2.2.13, inn-1999-12-22_03-01, with abour 
2.4 GB/hour incoming.

Cheers,
Kev

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