Hi *, I am seeking a little advice from people who are using leafnode (on Mandrake 8.1). Anyhow, if there's a better list I can try there, but I've gotten one or two OK replies from people here, and there are other issues.
A little background - I've managed (smaller) news feeds over UUCP links with CNews before, and have looked at INN but have never gotten it to work. Leafnode seems to fit the bill except for some rather intriguing problems - it's pulling down all the groups on my news server, for one. That's not all that bad; I've set limits on certain groups, especially the binaries groups -- I have it set to reject big articles and articles crossposted into too many groups. It runs pretty well (in a 5 gig reiserfs partition) except when the space is low. Right now I have about 8 megs free of that 5 gig space. Once in a while I have to kick it, either my /var fills up (the log files are pretty big) or run a manual texpire. But the biggest problem is the insane (I've seen it as high as 55!) load averages when leafnode does this - there are 50 or more copies of it running under conditions such as these. Often, fetchnews and/or leafnode processe consume prodigious amounts of RAM and swap (I have 256 megs of RAM). So much that I've done some reorganization here and my (old) 500 meg /var partition was turned to an additional area of swap (total about 700+ megs). Even so, I've come dangerously close to running out of available RAM and swap. My basic questions are whether others had noticed this before, and if there is a way to fix it. Of couse, adding more disk spacee and/or RAM seems to be the solution, but I can't do that right now although adding another 1/2 gig of RAM is worth looking into because RAM is cheap (is it still?) right now. But even so, I figure if I did that, leafnode/fetchnews would just grow to consume all the new resources too. Any better ideas? If I had more disk space I might be able to section off part of the spool elsewhere, as I did when running Cnews, using symlinks, but the message id structure in leafnode makes that impossible. Also is there a way to reserve block percentages with reiserfs the way there is with ext2/ext3? By default 5% is reserved for root in ext2, but is that the case with reiserfs?
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