From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 1 09:02:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06404 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA06398 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id LAA24581; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:56 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199604011700.LAA24581@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: "active" (INND14unoff4,shared) gets corrupted To: rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:56 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603311416.JAA15590@rk.ios.com> from "Rashid Karimov" at Mar 31, 96 09:16:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi there ppl, > > > I have INND1.4seunoff4 installed on 3 computers here - > 2 P6-200 and one P-166, all under FreeBSD 2.1-Release. > In one case(P-166) I use shared active patch and ccd driver > to max the HDs perf. > And it works kinda OK, but every once in a while > which means every day the active file gets corrupted > to the extent when it becomes unusable. A lot of BS > characters appear in it,articles numbers get concatenated > with the newsgroups names, non numeric characters appear > in the art. numbers and so on. > The system is not in a production and there is no heavy > usage. > > So did any1 see it before ? Does shared active patch work with > FreeBSD ? Well, it does work in my case , but could it cause > the corruption of the active file ? > I know that some folx here have news machines with ccd working OK > and I'm quite satisfies with perfomance too,but this thing with > active is really annoying. I ran into this just this morning for the first time in four months... hadn't been having that problem. I just recovered the active.old file and fixed it. It appeared to be just a small region of the active file that had gone to hell. I still have the file if anybody cares. The sharedactive stuff seems to work fine. The only other change I typically make is to enable keepalive's on nnrp sessions. I'd really like a way to do this on a "sitewide" basis :-/ ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968