Overview Buffers just keep on growing...

[bill davidsen]

In article <2507AC50-2E13-11D7-BE20-00039358110E at isc.upenn.edu>,
Donald Roeber  <droeber at isc.upenn.edu> wrote:
| 
| A few weeks ago, we ran into a problem where our overview buffers were 
| full.  I added an additional buffer, which brought the percentage of 
| used overview space down to 71%.  Since then, I've updated our 
| expire.ctl to be a little more strict, figuring that I'd expire more 
| articles, and free up overview buffer space.  However, that doesn't 
| seem to be happening.  I'm now using 89% of my overview space.  I'm 
| running INN 2.3.3 on Tru64 5.1a. ovmethod is set to buffindexed, and I 
| have four 2GB buffers created.  We're bringing in about 350000 articles 
| a day, and sending out about 165000.  Do I simply need more buffers?

Every time I have tried to use buffindexed I have seen just this
problem. The first time I tried the overview wound up several times
larger than the cycbuffs before I gave up. I have no intention of trying
this on any production server ever again...
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.