nnrpd distributed

[Russ Allbery]

Leo Wong <Leo.Wong at Datacraft-Asia.com> writes:

> I implemented 2 server , one with innd and innfeed, the other for reader
> only, thus, nnrpd -D.

> They share a NFS volume in between where i put the /var/lib/news and
> /var/spool/news there...

> I found that the reader machine always lag behind the feeding machine for
> like 4-8 hours, i can verify by directly doing a news read in innfeed.

> Can anyone help ? i assume this is pretty standard setup.. ...

Actually, it's recommended against in general, although setting nfsreader
and nfswriter as appropriate may help at least on systems other than
Solaris.  INN makes extensive use of memory-mapped files, which frequently
don't cooperate that well with NFS.

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