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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: can't free vnode
To: nwestfal@Vorlon.odc.net (Neal Westfall)
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 18:04:39 +0000 ()
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199602102055.MAA07072@Vorlon.odc.net> from "Neal Westfall" at Feb 10, 96 12:55:32 pm
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> 
> I have a news server here running FreeBSD-stable and INN 1.4-unoff and I
> am having a consistent problem of kernel panics.  The reason for the
> panic is usually something to the effect of "can't free vnode; free vnode
> isn't".
> 
1)	Change the INND's config.data to be ACT_STYLE READ.
2)	Do NOT run out of inodes on the disk.

You should probably be okay then.  The VM system performs about the
same with ACT_STYLE READ, and ACT_STYLE MMAP.

John Dyson