Hmm, I also have a few servers with a full feed and load is around 0.5.
Looks like you don't have enough memory..
>a news *reader* connection is established only after a very annoying
>delay, during which innd fork()'s and then exec()'s nnrpd.
Yup. That's why with inn-2.1 you can run nnrpd as a seperate daemon
which _really helps_. Also run ``controlchan'' so that inn doesn't have
to fork for control messages (and it helps against HipCrime attacks).
>strace output shows that it's the exec() syscall itself that's taking an
>unusual amount of time -- between 10 and 50 seconds! While this is
I can confirm this, and the less memory you have free the worse it gets.
On a machine with 128MB it is much more noticable than on a 256MB one.
Mike.
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