From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 09:21:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA22710 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22704 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA06283; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:24:23 -0800 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: John Beukema cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody seeing a problem with 2.1-stable and INN? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. > > > > >