Histfile >>2G on linux

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210081429500.29426-100000 at baal.ber.mediascape.de>,
Dirk Achenbach  <d.achenbach at mediascape.de> wrote:

| we are running a fullfeed and from time to time innd just terminates
| itself as =F1ews/db/history reaches the 2G-mark. The System itself
| (RedHat7.1) does recognize files >>2G, even inn does, as some
| cnfs-buffers are >>400G, and i do not have the slightest idea what i
| can possibly do to prevent inn from dying every 2 weeks or so.
| 
| What is the best means of keeping the history file large enough but
| still below 2G?

  Those are conflicting goals. For a start run "cnfsstat -a" and see if
it works. Many versions of Redhat were shipped with perl which was not
large file enabled. Why that would cause a problem I have no idea,
unless something in the embadded perl is trying to open a large file.

  If cnfsstat works then you are running a newer release or have
upgraded. In either case you have eliminated one possible problem.
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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.