Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:34:33 -0600 (CST) From: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.maxbaud.net> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slooow expires (inn 1.5.1 and 1.7.2.insync1.1d) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980322132845.15352E-100000@bmccane.maxbaud.net> In-Reply-To: <199803200352.FAA00972@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, John Hay wrote: > > > I think you just went over some limit and now the database isn't > > > handled in RAM anymore but on disk. It might be not enough RAM > > > or the limits in login.conf might be too low or something like > > > that. Try running /usr/bin/limits out of cron the same way your > > > expiry is done and have a look at its output. > > > > I tried this with _lots_ of free memory. After rebuilding the .pag and > > .dir files it used virtual memory. Something in the .dir file was the > > culprit, I think. I was happy to have our newsserver up and running again, > > so I didn't investigate. > > > > The same thing happened twice, and got resolved the same way, I'm fairly > > sure that something in the dbz-files was corrupted. > > Was your limits set high enough? What was the size of your .pag file? > Maybe bigger than what your limits allow you to have in memory? The > reason doing a makehistory help is because it shrink your database > to only the articles you have in your spool. > Actually, my .pag file is only about 9M. I have a very limited feed. Also, I have found the problem. I had *.jobs.* being saved for 8 days, and the directories were 4-5M each. I deleted all files older than 2 days, moved them into new directories (~256 now). And set the expiry for *.jobs.* to 2 days, the expire took 5 minutes 8). Anyway, I have now added various of the *.jobs.* to my filter_innd.pl file, so they don't go to disk any more. We'll see what happens. brian BTW> Next I will add the *.jobs.* to my exclusions in my newsfeeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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