Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Frank MacLachlan <fpm@n2.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Cc:        fpm@n2.net
Subject:   INN-1.5.1: overchan falls behind
Message-ID:  <199705292021.NAA05250@ravel.n2.net>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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:

   May 27 03:33:33 jsbach innd: overview!:20:proc:15712 cant flush count
     99777 Resource temporarily unavailable
   May 27 03:33:33 jsbach innd: overview! spooling 99777 bytes
   May 27 03:33:33 jsbach innd: DEBUG ERROR SITEspool trashed:20 overview!:15
   May 27 03:33:33 jsbach innd: overview! closed

The box I'm using has an AMD K5-PR133 w/ 128MB of RAM.  The overview
files are on a separate 2 gig Seagate Hawk disk drive which is mounted
noatime.  I tried increasing resource limits (open files and processes)
both in the kernel and for the news user w/o success.  INN-1.5.1 is
standard except for security patch 05.

Does anyone have a solution or any insights?

-- 
Frank MacLachlan (fpm@n2.net)
N2 Networking, San Diego, CA



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199705292021.NAA05250>