ok, i've got my news server up and running, and there do not appear to
be any serious flaws in things. (ie, no unexpected hangs, core-dumps or
other system problems).

however, running the same Cnews configuration as run on the exact hardware
un SunOS 4.1.1_U1, i am finding that the NetBSD-sun3 stuff just doesn't keep
up with the incoming newsflow.

i've tuned things up as best i can by spreading the load of $NEWSLIB and
in.coming/out.going and the articles on different disks.

i've put 64 meg of swap in for 32 meg of real ram (32 meg each on sd0 and sd1).

any suggestions to getting more disk, memory or CPU speedups would be
appreciated.

unfortunately, i may have to revert this box back to SunOS 4.1.1_U1 in order
to get the news batch processing performance i need. (or, ick, replace it
with an intel box).

the hardware is:

3/200 CPU
32 Meg (4 8 meg boards)
si SCSI controller

my config file for the kernel is:

include "std.sun3"

options         FPU_EMULATE
options         HAVECACHE               # Sun3/260 VAC

maxusers        20

options         SWAPPAGER, VNODEPAGER, DEVPAGER # paging
options         KTRACE                          # system call tracing support
options         DDB

options         NFSSERVER                       # nfs server support
options         NFSCLIENT                       # nfs client support
options         FFS                             # ufs file system
options         CD9660          # ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge file system
options         FDESC           # /dev/fd/*
options         FIFO            # FIFOs; RECOMMENDED
options         KERNFS          # /kern
options         NULLFS          # loopback file system
options         PROCFS          # /proc
options         UNION           # union file system

options         INET                            # IP prototol stack support
options         NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=1024

options         COMPAT_SUNOS    # can run SunOS 4.1.1 executables
options         COMPAT_09       # NetBSD 0.9,
options         COMPAT_10       # NetBSD 1.0,
options         COMPAT_43       # and 4.3BSD
options         TCP_COMPAT_42   # TCP bug compatibility with 4.2BSD

options         DIAGNOSTIC
options         SCSIDEBUG

config          netbsd  root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1 and sd2 and sd3

ie0 at obio0 addr ? level ?
ie1 at vmes0 addr 0xffe88000 level 3 vect 0x75

ncr_si0 at obio0 addr ? level ?
ncr_si0 at vmes0 addr 0xff200000 level 2 vect 0x40
ncr_si1 at vmes0 addr 0xff204000 level 2 vect 0x41

scsibus* at scsi?

sd0 at scsibus? target 0 lun 0
sd1 at scsibus? target 1 lun 0
sd2 at scsibus? target 2 lun 0
sd3 at scsibus? target 3 lun 0
sd5 at scsibus? target 5 lun 0
sd* at scsibus? target ? lun ?

st0 at scsibus? target 4 lun 0
st* at scsibus? target ? lun ?

cd0 at scsibus? target 6 lun 0
cd* at scsibus? target ? lun ?

pseudo-device   loop    1               # network loopback
pseudo-device   bpfilter 8              # packet filter

pseudo-device   pty     64              # pseudo-terminals


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