From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 23:47:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA18518 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:47:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.net.hk (john@gateway.hk.linkage.net [202.76.7.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA18512 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by gateway.net.hk (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA18646; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:41:16 +0800 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:41:16 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: Jaye Mathisen 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 On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > 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. Mine got of sync by moving groups to a new disk and symlinking. We have been up for 10 days. jbeukema > > 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. > > > > > > > > >