nnrpd & NEXT trouble

Alex Kiernan alexk at demon.net
Tue Jun 4 12:32:07 UTC 2002


"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Pavel V. Knyazev wrote:
> 
> > 211 47976 833479 881853 alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
> > next
> > [................NNRPD HANGS UP HERE FOR 60 SECS...............]
> > 223 842922 <gic5fuk1bgpc8i59q1i8sfree6asucsas1 at 4ax.com> Article retrieved;
> > reque
> > st text separately.
> 
> Is nnrpdcheckart in inn.conf true?  If so, I bet that's the problem -- try 
> attaching to nnrpd with gdb and seeing if it is frantically opening and 
> closing articles to make sure they exist.
> 
> I don't have a good solution; I never had this problem until relatively 
> recently, and it seems to have started suddenly despite the number of 
> articles in my never-expiring groups growing at a steady rate.  I had to 
> disable nnrpdcheckart, which is a user-visible change in trn (lots of 
> "skipping unavailable article" messages while reading), for lack of any 
> better ideas.
> 

We've ended up doing the same thing here, on our NFS mounted reader
boxes they just went berserk checking articles during overview
operations (which isn't helped by us allowing NEWNEWS).

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC


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