Problems with cnfsstat output...

[Todd Kaehler]

bill davidsen wrote:

>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.
>  
>

Same problem with 1.9GB files and I am using the perl which comes with 
redhat 9.0 which does have large file support:

# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-2.48smp, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux str'
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -g 
-Dmyhostname=localhost

.
.
.
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS 
-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='',
.
.
.
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS 
USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Locally applied patches:
        MAINT18379
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Feb 18 2003 22:19:53
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    .