how do i understand inn_feed stats?

[Bill Davidsen]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Look at the queue length statistics over on the side.  Note that the queue
> is empty 100% of the time.  If the feed isn't keeping up, you'll see the
> percentages of the other buckets climbing, until eventually it's all in
> full.  That's the fastest way of telling whether a feed is keeping up.

Sometimes. Depending on the policy, as you start to backlog more sockets 
may be opened, article rate will increase, and the feed will never 
actually backlog.

My personal experience is that if bandwidth is an issue the large 
article feed will backlog and more streams will not help, if history 
lookup on the fed site is an issue more sockets on the small article 
feed may help, and if you mix large and small articles in a single feed 
the slow transfer of large articles (relatively) hurts the performance 
of the small but numerous articles, and backlogs are more likely.

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