my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling".
I've found a relevant section in /usr/doc/news/inn-faq-5, which describes the problem and also has a fix (run 'ctlinnd renumber'), but this is only a patchup job...in a couple of days the problem has occured again. extract from the inn faq part 5: > QUESTION: I'm running INN 1.4, and the server throttles itself, saying > "File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling". Why? I > have no clue, other than to note that the message is being emitted > while innd/art.c tries to link a crossposted group. > > ANSWER: Innd wrote the article to comp/foo/123 and then tried to > symlink it to alt/bar/128 and found that the symlink failed with errno > == EEXIST. This generally only happens when your active file does not > match your file/directory use. The three most common cases of that are: > > Trying to use MMAP on Ultrix > Trying to use MMAP on Linux > Some strange interaction with tind. > > If you are using Ultrix or Linux, turn off MMAP. You don't have a > choice in this. The Ultrix mmap() function does something completely > different than the Sun/BSD mmap() function. The Linux function gives > you some of the functionality that Sun/BSD mmap() function has, but > not enough. (The Linux people expect to have it fully up to spec > eventually, yeah right.) Is this still true for linux? is it a kernel or a libc problem? Has inn for debian been compiled with MMAP turned off? If not, should this be reported as a bug against inn? Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
