From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 29 19:58:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA24637 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 19:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA24631 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 19:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15498; Thu, 29 May 1997 22:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id WAA22595; Thu, 29 May 1997 22:58:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Frank MacLachlan cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: INN-1.5.1: overchan falls behind In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 May 1997 13:21:17 PDT." <199705292021.NAA05250@ravel.n2.net> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:58:13 -0400 Message-ID: <22593.864961093@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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