64-bit highmarks in active files

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

>> Aug 19 08:27:31 news innd: tradindexed: cannot write index record for 2147483647 in
>>                /home/news/work/testserver/spool/overview/t/t/trigofacile.test.IDX: Invalid argument
>> Aug 19 08:27:31 news innd: SERVER cant store overview for @0500000000077FFFFFFF0000000000000000@
>
> My guess is that the problem here is unrelated to the size of the article
> number itself and is due to the gap.  The IDX file for tradindexed
> overview has one record per article number, so when you have a gap that
> large, INN tried to create and then mmap a *huge* file.  You probably
> don't have enough addressable memory to do that.

% tail -n2 trigofacile.test.DAT
2047483647      test [...]
2147483647      test [...]

% ll
total 28K
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news  12K 2008-08-19 08:27 trigofacile.test.DAT
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 663M 2008-08-19 08:26 trigofacile.test.IDX

The file trigofacile.test.IDX was correctly updated when I fed the article 2,047,483,647.
It is only for an article strictly > 2,147,483,647 (considered as 2,147,483,647 by INN)
that such an error occurs for tradindexed.

So the gap is not that huge :)


Hmm...  I see "total 28K"...  It should be "total 663M".  (Unless the file
is considered as empty and filled with nought?)



By way of comparison, my local news.lists.filters has 224,424 articles and:

% ll
total 42M
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news  36M 2008-08-19 22:46 news.lists.filters.DAT
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 7,8M 2008-08-19 22:46 news.lists.filters.IDX

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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