On Thursday 07 February 2008, Eben King wrote:
> I run my own news server with leafnode. As Usenet has gotten busier, I now
> have over 74K files in /var/spool/news/alt/fan/cecil-adams . leafnode
> doesn't deal with this well at all; a.f.c-a takes 1:50 to open, during
> which time leafnode uses 97%+ (of one CPU, it's single-threaded) and trn
> just sits there; the progress meter then takes a second or two to go from 0
> to 100%. I already have the news spool directory (ext3) mounted noatime.
> Is there a faster filesystem, or some option I can give to leafnode, or is
> it that leafnode just doesn't scale well and I should lower the retention
> time?
Sounds like it should be moved into a db. At this volume file systems, flat
files and the like are not a good solution. I've not looked into what kind of
clients are available but that really belongs in a db.
--Steve Szmidt
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