cycbuff limit?

[bill davidsen]

In article <20000824150027.A2444 at xmission.com> you write:
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| I'm building a big phat news server that currently has 286 2Gig cycbuffs
| created.  INN 2.3 was dying silently until I found that it would only
| accept 215 cycbuffs, anything higher would not work.
| 
| Is there a limit I can boost to get beyond this?  Also, the reason I'm
| doing this is due to the maturity of raw disk access on Linux.  However,
| its been a long time since I've messed with that.  Has it gotten better?
| Is it more desirable than 286 2Gig files? :-)

  The new 2.4.0 kernel series supports >2GB files, that might be a
better solution for you. From limited use with INN and heavy use on
another application I would say it works. I've had stable performance
with 2.4.0test5, test6 would not compile on any of my configurations.

  It's a bit bleeding edge, but worth it, particularly if you are
running SMP.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.