history: Numerical argument out of domain

[Patrick Schreurs]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:

> It looks like there's an error somewhere dbzinit().  EDOM
> is explicitly set even if there's another errno is set.
> One of the probable reasons for this is that you have many
> peer connections, # of fd exceeds the limit when history
> is replaced for expiry.

I still haven't figured this out. Problem still exists and
results in innd stopping daily. This server only does
text articles and is almost idle. It receices its' feed
from only one peer. History file is large (now +8GB).

from news.err
Mar  6 14:45:14 news2 innd: can't dbzinit /usr/local/news/spool/db/history Numerical argument out of domain
Mar  6 14:45:14 news2 innd: can't dbzclose /usr/local/news/spool/db/history Numerical argument out of domain
Mar  6 14:45:14 news2 innd: SERVER can't open history /usr/local/news/spool/db/history: Numerical argument out of domain

from expire.log
debug: unthrottling innd Sat Mar  6 09:02:02 CET 2004
expire begin Sat Mar  6 14:22:00 CET 2004: (-v1)
expire: cannot unpause server: No such process
Article lines processed 84734258
Articles retained       84708068
Entries expired            26190
expire end Sat Mar  6 14:47:14 CET 2004

Any hints?

Thanks.

Patrick Schreurs
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