Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: John Beukema <john@gateway.net.hk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody seeing a problem with 2.1-stable and INN? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109091944.5504O-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960109164338.7252A-100000@gateway.net.hk>
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Yeah, but the history file should never get out of sync. Back in the good old days i used to run one of the top sites in the nation, and I *never* had these kinds of problems. I ended up getting mail from John Dyson who suggest that the problem really was with MMAP. So I've recompiled w/o mmap, and it's been running fine now for about 14 hours, which is long than it has made it before. After a few days I'll know for sure. On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, John Beukema wrote: > > We are using 2.1.0R FBSD with INN for a 5,000 group feed without trouble. > Everytime I have seen the symlink error, the history file was out of > sync. Make certain makehistory completes without error and that the new > file is written to /usr/local/news/lib/history ( the default is something > else). Also make certain > you provide ~75MB of tmp file space using 'makehistory -o -T /news2/tmp' > > > On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > > > I'm using INN1.4sec with the unofficial patches from psu (level 2). On a > > FreebSD 2.1-stable box. 32MB RAM, 20GB disk. > > > > I am constantly getting errors from INN about symlinking articles, > > specifically that when INN goes to write a file, the file it thinks it > > can write to already exists. > > > > Thinking that something got whacked in the filesystem/history files I > > removed all files from the file system, and then restarted INN. Within a > > few hours, I started getting the error again that some inconsistency has > > happened. > > > > This problem has cropped up in about the last month, and nothing I do > > seems to fix it. I've rebuilt and re-installed the INN software, I've > > rebuilt the history and active files a kazillion times, and nothing seems > > to work. > > > > I'm wondering if there's a problem in the MMAP stuff (which is something > > that I couldn't use under BSD/OS, which this box is a convert from), or > > maybe the dbz routines... > > > > Any idea appreciated, I'd hate to have to punt back to BSD/OS. > > > > >
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