INND~stopped a brief time

[Russ Allbery]

fukuda shinichi <fukuda at alles.ad.jp> writes:

> i got a error Message from Mr INND.( INN-2.3.0 on solaris-8 )
> He said 
> 	"innd: [ID 845646 news.error] SERVER cant fork /usr/local/news/bin
> 	 /nnrpd Not enough space  "

Your system ran out of memory.  Ick.

> After a few second (about 30 - 40) , INND running normaly again.  This
> error happend just once last night. At that time nnrpd running about
> 100.  Of course, system has a lot of Memories for INND about 1GB. It is
> a first time this error. And this system running no trouble about 2
> months.

> What should i do ? Install more memories ??

Are you using controlchan?  One thing that can cause this is control
message storms, if you're not using controlchan.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what might fill 1GB of memory.  Is innd unusually
large?  How large is your history.hash file?

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