INN not keeping up with incoming news

[bill davidsen]

In article <20010221144820.A46625 at myhakas.matti.ee>,
Vallo Kallaste  <vallo at matti.ee> wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:19:59PM -0500, bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
| 
| >   My gain was because I am still on the older kernel and limited to 2GB
| > cycbuffs. Using SEQUENTIAL kept the system from thrashing between
| > cycbuffs. The IBM ServRAID controller has a max stripe of 16k, far too
| > small for news. I'd love to go to software RAID, but the controller
| > seems not to support it.
| 
| What kind of IBM ServeRaid is this? I've not seen such a low maximum
| stripe size, even the old ServeRaid-II supports at least 32K stripe
| size. Have you upgraded card's firmware etc.? For JBOD you're lost,
| yes.

  I don't have a part number handy, but they came in a batch of newly
built Netfinity boxes. I can probably get a part number, and I believe I
can now up the stripe to 64k under Linux, but that's still way too
small, given current article sizes.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.