At 09:21 AM 2/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>How come, my dnews processor percentage figure is totally different to
>that which the system reports. I just noticed that for the last hour
>it's been at 99/99 Busy % on the admin tool. If I look at the NT Task
>Manager it's running at around 20%.
One is how busy dnews is, the other is how much cpu you are using. If dnews is
waiting for disks most of the time then cpu use will remain low even though
dnews can't 'go any faster'
To confuse things further if you have thread_in true and 5.4j7 or later then
dnews could use more than 100% due to threading :-)
So the difference does indicate your system isn't balanced and maybe could be
tuned a bit.
So if you think you have a performance problem set 'timing true' in
dnews.conf, "tellnews reload"
and then after running dnews for a few hours send us:
dnews.conf
newsfeeds.conf
tellnews status
tellnews stats
And we'll check for possible tuning settings you could use.
ChrisP.
