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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!uwvax!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!phase23!citylink.dinoex.sub.org!peter From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) Subject: Re: INN throttle on FreeBSD... Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik Message-ID: <DA1Mp4.LHt@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> References: <3rcftj$1l7@airhk.air.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 04:48:40 GMT Lines: 35 In article <3rcftj$1l7@airhk.air.org>, Chris Lo <chris@airhk.air.org> wrote: >Around once in a week or two I get: > >Server throttled File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling This message indicates usually that the high water marks in the active file are too low, i.e. there are existing articles above it. INN handles this in some way when receiving articles to disk, but will not be able to link a crossposting onto an existing article file. This will happen usually if an old active file backup gets copied in, or the active file is edited (and thereby rewritten, otherwise it will get even worse) while the server is running. (I have no idea about MMAP, but this might likely be able to produce a similar interference.) >I've tried to use > >ctlinnd renumber '' Updates only the *low* watermark of the active (according to manpage). >makehistory -buv Won't touch the active at all. >and it doesn't cure the problem. "makeactive" will likely help. It has an option to update low AND high water mark of the active only. It's described in the "news-recovery" manpage. Peter -- Write to: Peter Much * Koelnische Str. 22 * D-34117 Kassel * +49-561-774961 peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org much@hrz.uni-kassel.de p.much@asco.nev.sub.de