At 08:50 AM 2/16/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I notice on the updates page that the latest builds of DNews use threading,
>and have this turned on by default if the platform supports it. I wonder if
>threading would minimize the advantages of running dmulti on a platform with
>good threading support, such as Solaris?
>
>I'm running dmulti on a reader machine with a modest incoming feed (about
>1gb per day), and I find it a bit more difficult to read the logs, use the
>Web interface, etc. with dmulti. Not that this is a _really_ big deal, but I
>guess I'd rather not use dmulti unless it really provides some big wins.
>
>I generally have 50-100 concurrent users, a small 3 gb spool, and am running
>on a dual-cpu Sparc 420 with 1 gb memory.
The threading in that version does not cover everything by any means, it is
mainly focused at dealing with the incoming news feed since that is the
single most resource intensive thing the server is doing.
In your situation I think the answer is yes, dmulti does give some
advantages but
on a moderate sized system the thread_in module and external expires may
well be enough to avoid using dmulti, you should add into dnews.conf
spawn_expire true
thread_in true
to ensure it is turned on.
ChrisP.
