Newgroup hashtable (NGH)

[Frans Dogge]

At 07:40 22/02/01 -0500, you wrote:
>In article <20010221084127.A500 at umarth.worldonline.nl> you write:
>| 
>| Hey All,
>| 
>| I ran into a problem yesterday, that flabbergasted me completely. The
>| expireover cored, and innd just stopped. There where no error messages
>| anywhere, innd just stopped, and would not start again. With the help of a
>| programmer we where able to debug the core file, and found that the problem
>| was with our active file. We have been using this file for about 4 years
>| now, so it's big. It is so big that the Newgrouphashtable (NGH) which has a
>| default value of 2048, was unable to contain it. We increased the size to
>| 4096, and recompiled inn, and the problem was solved. 
>| 
>| Has anyone else had this problem? And is there a way to prevent it from
>| happening again?
>
>Frans - what version are you running? And how big is your active?

I forgot that part..... My active file is 1,5 MB and am running inn-2.2.1

Regards,

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Frans Dogge
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