Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:58:13 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Frank MacLachlan <fpm@n2.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN-1.5.1: overchan falls behind Message-ID: <22593.864961093@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 May 1997 13:21:17 PDT." <199705292021.NAA05250@ravel.n2.net>
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Frank MacLachlan wrote in message ID <199705292021.NAA05250@ravel.n2.net>: > Since upgrading to a news server running FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE and > inn-1.5.1, I've been seeing messages such as: > > May 27 03:27:24 jsbach innd: overview!:20:proc:15712 wakeup > May 27 03:27:24 jsbach innd: overview!:20:proc:15712 cant write Resource > temporarily unavailable > May 27 03:27:24 jsbach innd: overview!:20:proc:15712 blocked sleeping 120 > > The problem seems to begin soon after expireover runs, but can persist > after expireover finishes. Throttling the server doesn't help - the > problem persists even if the system is totally quiescent. Eventually > the data gets tossed: Try leaving the system unthrottled and instead do a: ctlinnd flush overchan! (or ctlinnd flush overchan\! to avoid shell expansion) If that recovers it, you may benefit from a small change I made to overchan (basically increasing the buffer size). There seems, however, to be a more serious i/o contention issue :-/ Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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