CNFS questions....

[Bill Davidsen]

Pavel V. Knyazev wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 
>>>Yeah, i've got the same problem with large buffers.
>>>Sure, cnfsstat is just lying. Everything works just
>>>fine. I didn't try to create very large buffers, but
>>>it's all okay with 70Gb sizes.
>>>
>>>But to be frank i do see the sizes of the buffers.
>>>
>>>6:14pm image:/root> cnfsstat
>>>Class MCFID  for groups matching "fido7.*"
>>> Buffer FIDO, size:  3.95 GBytes, position:   300 MBytes  0.07 cycles
>>>  Newest: 2004-09-06 18:13:05,    0 days,  0:02:44 ago
>>>
>>>Class MCSML  for groups matching "*,!fido7.*", article size min/max:
> 
> 0/32768
> 
>>> Buffer SMLA, size:  39.1 GBytes, position:  15.7 GBytes  0.40 cycles
>>>  Newest: 2004-09-06 18:15:46,    0 days,  0:00:03 ago
>>>
>>>Class MCBIG  for groups matching "*,!fido7.*", article size min/max:
>>>32769/2105344
>>> Buffer BIGA, size:  68.7 GBytes, position:  41.2 GBytes  2.60 cycles
>>>  Newest: 2004-09-06 18:15:23,    0 days,  0:00:26 ago
>>>
>>>6:15pm image:/root>
>>
>>Okay, you see the whole space, and your perl (possibly vendor supplied)
>>was built with largefile support. I'm not sure what "same problem" you
>>have. What isn't working?
> 
> 
> The following (while without -a it's still working):
> 
> 4:55pm image:/root> cnfsstat -a
> Class MCFID  for groups matching "fido7.*"
>  Buffer FIDO, size:  3.95 GBytes, position:   363 MBytes  0.09 cycles
>   Newest: 2004-09-09 16:33:04,    0 days,  0:22:34 ago
>   Oldest: 2004-08-22 22:33:13,   17 days, 18:22:25 ago
> 
> Class MCSML  for groups matching "*,!fido7.*", article size min/max: 0/32768
>  Buffer SMLA, size:  39.1 GBytes, position:  18.6 GBytes  0.48 cycles
>   Newest: 2004-09-09 16:55:36,    0 days,  0:00:02 ago
>   Oldest: 2004-08-22 22:25:31,   17 days, 18:30:07 ago
> 
> Class MCBIG  for groups matching "*,!fido7.*", article size min/max:
> 32769/2105344
> sysseek:
> 4:55pm image:/root>

What version of perl are you running? Most odd that it would work on one 
cycbuff and not another. Any chance that there's something actually 
wrong with that MCBIG cycbuff set?


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