Histfile >>2G on linux

[Dirk Achenbach]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

>
> Dirk Achenbach <d.achenbach at mediascape.de> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> It should log *some* sort of error,
oops. yup. i dont have it right now, but will post it next time it
occurs - if ever again.

> or drop a core in the spool/articles
> directory.


[root at news1 articles]# ls -l ~news/spool/articles
total 265548
-rw-------    1 news     news     274382848 Oct  7 11:59 core


>  With your configuration, INN should correctly handle a
> configure file larger than 2GB.

it's not the configure file being that large :)


even better regards,
Dirk Achenbach



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