From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 29 13:21:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06917 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 13:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ravel.n2.net (root@ravel.n2.net [207.113.132.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA06912 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 13:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fpm@localhost) by ravel.n2.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA05250; Thu, 29 May 1997 13:21:17 -0700 From: Frank MacLachlan Message-Id: <199705292021.NAA05250@ravel.n2.net> Subject: INN-1.5.1: overchan falls behind To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: fpm@n2.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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