Problems with cnfsstat output...

[bill davidsen]

In article <3F6239A1.7050306 at psmfc.org>,
Todd Kaehler  <kaehler at psmfc.org> wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I am using cycbuffs of 2 Gb (was using 1 Gb cycbuffs without any 
| problems) and when I do a 'cnfsstat -a' I now get:
| 
| # cnfsstat -a
| Class LARGE  for groups matching "*", article size min/max: 200000/0
| Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0xdd3fd70e, byte 0x98, after 
| start byte 0xff) in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/news/bin/cnfsstat 
| line 465.
| Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0x48a077ae, byte 0x7c, after 
| start byte 0xbf) in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/news/bin/cnfsstat 
| line 465.
| Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0xb41fbd6e, byte 0xb9, after 
| start byte 0xff) in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/news/bin/cnfsstat 
| line 465.
| .
| .
| ...  Lot of these lines...
| .
|  Buffer LONE, size:  1.00 GBytes, position:   633 MBytes  5.00 cycles
|   Newest: 2003-09-12 14:08:28,    0 days,  0:00:55 ago
|   Oldest: 2003-09-11 18:07:15,    0 days, 20:02:08 ago
| .
| ... etc...

There's a fair chance your copy of perl was compiled without large file
support and it can't handle the buffer size. Recompile or drop to 1.9GB
buffers if that's the case.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.