performance loss with inn 2.5.x (tradspool) ?

[River Tarnell]

In article <20120203133959.GA2390 at data.voyager.hr>,
Matija Nalis  <mnalis-ml at voyager.hr> wrote:
>I've recently upgraded (xref master) news machine from Debian Lenny 
>with INN 2.4.6-snapshot-20090119 to Debian Squeeze with INN 
>2.5.2-2~squeeze1
>[...] I'm seeing severe performance degradation (loadavg went from 2 to 
>6!)

Is it possible your filesystem changed from ext3 to ext4, which enables 
write barriers by default?  You can try mounting your spool with 
'barrier=0' to see if the problem goes away.

(This will risk data corruption, but running ext3 without barriers has 
the same problem anyway.)

>tradspool

If you're moving this much news, perhaps it's time to upgrade to CNFS 
anyway?  (Or at least traxindexed.)

Regards,
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