More on -- Severely delayed (15s) ACK on inbound NNTP packets cau sing hung channels

[Wyer, Brett]

My sincere apologies.  You'd think I didn't do tech support...

I'm running Digital UNIX v4.0E and using the storage API -- cnfs method.

I've got six channels going against Sprintlink and being fed by a T1.  I've
checked the usage and it isn't peaked.  We're sitting at an average of about
800Kbps.  The really strange thing is that when I pull up history from
shortly after I converted to cnfs, we were  taking 95% of the news fed to us
without a problem.  Now we're dropping over half and can't even keep a T1
saturated.

Additionally, I've checked disk queues and CPU utilization.  INN never
consumes more than about 30% of a CPU and disk queues never exceed 1-2 I/O's
outstanding in an 8-member stripeset.

A little more information:

Oct  6 08:10:42
Percent busy:        (   300003 -    212564) /    300003 = 29.1%
Time per article write:                 2833 /       258 = 11.0 ms
Percent time spent writing art:         2833 /    300003 = 0.9%
Time per history write:                 4051 /       350 = 11.6 ms
Percent time spent writing his:         4051 /    300003 = 1.4%
Time per history lookup:                 451 /       704 = 0.6 ms
Percent time spent hist lookup:          451 /    300003 = 0.2%

Brett