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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!sol.caps.maine.edu!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Problem with INN unoff 4 Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin,news.software.nntp Date: 6 Jun 1996 04:04:40 GMT Organization: Maine State Government Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4p5lco$ibh@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960605121727.10492C-100000@winslow.net66.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3929 comp.unix.admin:43122 news.software.nntp:23347 Greg Whalin (gwhalin@winslow.net66.com) wrote: : Here is the lowdown. : Our news server : : 64MB RAM : Pentium 100 BSDI BSD/OS 2.0.1 : Running INND unoff 4 with the sharedactive patch (same problem without : the patch) : Machine is dedicated to news server only (no other big apps). : Here is the problem ... After a reboot, the machine runs fine for a : period of about 24 hours (sometimes less). Then, it stops allowing : newsreader connections. The log files show the message (when this : problem is occurring) of: : flagstaff innd: ME can't fork /usr/contrib/lib/news/in.nnrpd Cannot : allocate memory : I have tried numerous things. I made sure that the user news was not : running out of data space by using limit (cputime, datasize, filesize, : openfiles, maxproc, memoryuse, stacksize) unlimited. I also recompiled : INN with the sharedactive patch. For some reason, it is still doing the : exact same thing. I am including some output from vmstat 5 below. The : only thing that looks strange to me, is that there the fre collumn starts : at about mid 40's and then slowly drops (is this normal??) until it hits : around 7600. At this point, the problems are occurring. Also, the page : faults seem to jump very high at points. I am not sure if it is normal : for them to jump this high or not. Basically, I need to know if anyone : else has experienced the same problem, and if so, how was it resolved. : Any and all advise or suggestions in this matter would be greatly : appreciated. I'm running 1.4u4 on a number of 2.1 and 2.01 systems with no apparent problems. How much swap space do you have configured, and how much is in use? (pstat -s). How many users are you configured for? Lastly, have you installed all the 2.01 patches? -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply