system call writing creating overview file -- throttling

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> On May 5, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:

>> Interrupted system call writing creating overview file -- throttling

> That error comes about from the call

>      IOError("creating overview", 0);

> in innd/art.c.  Unfortunately, that error message (complete with odd 
> grammatical error) could result from any of a variety of failures.

> Are there any error messages in the INN logs (news.crit, news.err, 
> news.notice) preceding the time that INN was throttled?  Hopefully 
> there will be, and then we'll be able to say more.

> If "interrupted system call" is truly the reason for throttling, then
> this is an INN bug.  However, it's possible that that part of the
> message is spurious, and something in the logs will give an alternative
> explanation.

Also, what version of INN is this?  A lot of bugs of this sort were fixed
in INN 2.4.

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