huge innfeed process

Ilya Etingof ilya at glas.net
Wed May 24 10:58:33 UTC 2000


> } Why it becomes so huge? Is it normal or there is a memory leak somewhere?
> 
> If the memory usage of innfeed includes mmapped area,
> I think it may be normal.

I have mmaping disabled so this is not the case.

> } I also noticed a great number of temp files left in innfeed/
> } directory. They typically look like newsfeed.domain.com.output.syaWzP so
> } there are no lost temp files for "input". What caused innfeed leave these
> } files there? How do I prevent this from happening?
> 
> I saw this too when innfeed died explicitly by abort().
> And these files are created when backlog is shrinked.
> I always tend to remove them manually including core :<

Perhaps my script should perform fuser against each temp file before
actually removing it...

-ilya




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