History File over 2GB

Alex Kiernan alexk at demon.net
Wed Sep 4 07:41:00 UTC 2002


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> 
> > I suspect there's something else going on here, because it has all of
> > the delay at once and then sends all of the data, which doesn't match my
> > mental model of what should happen (send response header, and then send
> > multiline response one article at a time as they are discovered).  But
> > there's definitely a potential downside to checkart as things stand now.
> 
> There's something really weird with at least LISTGROUP; I just tried it on
> a newsgroup stored in timehash that has over 90,000 articles, and around
> 81,000 it started getting *really* slow and peaked at 40MB of memory used.
> 

timehash problem? I've just done the same with a group which is on
cnfs (~200K articles), and the process size was static at ~800MB
(which is normal) and the rss static at around 3MB.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc


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