INN expire problems

[Heiner Lante]

no, there are no limits:

news at news:/usr/local/inn> ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 32768
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited

The size of  the history is only 2,2 Gbyte.
I am using INN 2.4.2 (20040827 prerelease).

Regards Heiner
hl at kamp.de

At 07:55 08.09.2004 -0400, Jeffrey M.Vinocur wrote:
>On Sep 8, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Heiner Lante wrote:
>
> > I have a problem during expire sometimes. When the expire starts INN
> > stops
> > working and some error messages can be found in the log files:
> >
> > Syslog critical messages:
> > Sep 6 01:00:02 news innd: SERVER can't open history
> > /usr/local/news/db/history: Cannot allocate memory
>
>I would check the size of your history file, certainly.
>
>But probably you have limit/ulimit quotas in place that prevent your
>expire process from using as much of your physical memory as you would
>like.  Check your shell manpage or system documentation to learn about
>adjusting these.
>
>--
>Jeffrey M. Vinocur
>jeff at litech.org