From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 19 19:53:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12690 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12666 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.8/8.8.7) id FAA00972; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 05:52:40 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199803200352.FAA00972@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Slooow expires (inn 1.5.1 and 1.7.2.insync1.1d) In-Reply-To: from Martin Jangowski at "Mar 19, 98 10:56:14 pm" To: bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de (Martin Jangowski) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 05:52:40 +0200 (SAT) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message