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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:51:41 -0600
From:      zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula)
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INN
Message-ID:  <32136254.80785614@mail.digitaladvantage.net>
In-Reply-To: <199608151530.KAA13822@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
References:  <199608151530.KAA13822@brasil.moneng.mei.com>

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On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> wrote:

>> Jason Wilson wrote:
>> 
>> >After starting INN everything runs smoothly; feeds come in/go out fine, nnrp 
>> >clients connect and read/post fine etc etc.  After running for about 
>> >15-30 minutes everything stops.  All incoming and outgoing nntp feeds 
>> >close, nnrp clients hang, ctlinnd <anything> hangs, and when I telnet to 
>> >the nntp port it times out with dest unreachable.  From a ps listing 
>> >everything looks normal.  Everything was working fine until I reinstalled 
>> >FBSD a few days ago.
>> 
>> Just a thought - did anything happen to your swap configuration or similar 
>> when you reinstalled FreeBSD? INN keeps everything in memory and grows to be 
>> a very large process. In my configuration it starts out at around 2MB at 
>> boot-time and slowly grows over the next hour or so to 6-7MB. This could 
>> interact with a swap or memory problem with the result you describe.
>
>2MB?  6-7MB??  :-)  Boy oh boy.  I wish I had a news server that 
>was ever that small.  ;-)
>
>... JG
>

I bet you could even get away with using IDE disks on that server..

innd over here is sitting at ~30mb right now.

Russ




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