throttling problem

[Russ Allbery]

tvasquez <tvasquez at mail.mdanderson.org> writes:

> I am having the following problem:

> $ ctlinnd mode
> Server throttled Interrupted system call writing creating overview file --
> throttling
> Allowing remote connections
> Parameters c 14 i 50 (6) l 1000000 o 243 t 300 H 2 T 60 X 0 normal specified
> Not reserved
> Readers separate disabled Interrupted system call writing creating overview file
>  -- throttling
> Perl filtering enabled
> you have mail in /var/mail/news

> What is the problem of writing the overview file?

Possibly nothing.  Try just unthrottling the server and see if it starts
working again.  It looks like the overview code may have quite a few
writes that should be xwrites, and I think xwrite should handle an
interrupted system call.  I'm putting this on the to-do list....

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>