INN 2.3.0

[Russ Allbery]

cheiser <cheiser at cais.net> writes:

> I'm currently runing 2.3.0 on a FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE box and have seen the
> following errors pop up after running for about a month

> Dec 21 16:48:12 lain expireover[42475]: buffindexed: ovgroupmmap ovbuff is
> null(ovindex is 25938, ovblock is 154546740
> Dec 21 16:48:12 lain expireover[42475]: buffindexed: could not open
> overview for 'alt.business.multi-level'

> I use Cyclical Buffer files for news storage and Buffindexed for
> overview information.  My question is, are these error critically bad,
> and would this cause my news server to stop accepting news at the FULL
> BLOWN rate it had been?  It seems now that my news server might actually
> spool about 5% of all the news it recieves.

They don't sound good, and they could be interfering with you accepting
articles.

> Should I be rebuilding the history database and the overview information?

It sounds like it, if you haven't already.  Out of curiosity, were you
trying to use raw devices for your buffindexed buffers, or were you using
regular files?

> I know INN cannot be running when I do this, but I have a question about
> clearing the overview as suggested in the man pages.  To clear the
> overview information before rebuilding it, would that mean that I have
> to delete all my overview buffer files and recreate them?

Right.

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