Article problems after rebooting server

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 17 21:28:42 UTC 2005


Francisco Cosin Vallejo <francisco.cosin at corp.ya.com> writes:

> Yesterday I had to reboot server cause of high load left server KO.

> Since then I have lost many messages due to caducity and now I'm getting 
>   thousands of errors like those:

> Nov 17 10:15:45 news nnrpd[22865]: CNFS-sm: could not mmap token 
> @0300455342494E313000000CF59D00000073@ ESBIN10:0x19eb3a0c:115: Cannot 
> allocate memory

You have a corrupt article in CNFS, probably with an irrationally large
size.  Setting cnfscheckfudgesize (see inn.conf(5)) will cause CNFS to
diagnose this earlier than the mmap failure, but either way that article
is probably lost.  Eventually the cycbuff will roll over it again.

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