Re: innd & mmap

1996-12-06 Thread Robert Stone
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > > >> my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists > > >> writing symlinking article file -- throttling". > > > > Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albe

Re: innd & mmap

1996-12-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > >> my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists > >> writing symlinking article file -- throttling". > > Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albeit > under Solaris 2.5 rather than Linux). yep,

Re: innd & mmap

1996-12-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You (Craig Sanders) wrote: > > my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists > > writing symlinking article file -- throttling". > > How's your disk? Do you see many ext2 errors? yeah, a few there's some weird corrupt

Re: innd & mmap

1996-12-01 Thread Richard Kettlewell
>> my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists >> writing symlinking article file -- throttling". Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albeit under Solaris 2.5 rather than Linux). >> Is this still true for linux? >> >> is it a kernel or a libc

Re: innd & mmap

1996-11-28 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Craig Sanders, you wrote: > > 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? Hmm.. I run a non-debian version of inn, aqnd it works fine

innd & mmap

1996-11-27 Thread Craig Sanders
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