nnrpd distributed

[Alex Kiernan]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:05:16 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 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.

I suspect you mean "may help at least on Solaris" :)

If you are on Solaris, set your inn.conf on your writer to include the
option `nfswriter true' and on your readers, `nfsreader true' and
nfsreaderdelay to a delay which is greater than all of the assorted
nfs timeouts you have set. Set your overview format to tradindexed and
your overcachesize to 0.

Its not the greatest solution in the world, but it mostly works.

-- 
Alex Kiernan