nnrpd, cnfs and binaries

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Nov 5 20:22:18 UTC 2002


bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

> Typically the startup is much faster with -D and the memory used is less
> due to the data being shared COW for most functional VM implementations.
> Obviously YMMV.

I don't think -D helps that much there because most of the memory usage is
from opening the storage and overview backends, and that's done after the
fork even in -D mode.

> My guess is that not using overchan is going down the "less traveled
> way" and the problem is in overview for the articles. Your suggestion is
> a good one, it will show if the article is present, pointing the finger
> to overview.

> I haven't tried running without overchan in several years, although I
> have run several copies to keep up with the article rate.

I don't run overchan on any of my servers.  I just don't trust it as much.

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