buffindexed: overview data is too large 55193

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Kathryn Hemness wrote:

> innd: [ID 584949 news.error] buffindexed: overview data is too large 55193
> 
> I'm using CNFS for the articles and buffindexed for the overview and
> my overview is nowhere near full:

I'm no expert in buffindexed, but taking a look at the code, this is 
saying that an individual overview record is too large (cutoff is 8192), 
not that the database is full by any means.

I would speculate that this could be an article with aberrant headers of 
some variety resulting in an overview record that is long.  Of course, 
it's difficult to tell because the error message doesn't give you much to 
go on.


If you want to track this down, I think you could make the logging more 
useful by editing storage/buffindexed/buffindexed.c (line ~1523) from:

    warn("buffindexed: overview data is too large %d", len);

to

    warn("buffindexed: overview data for %s is too large %d", 
        TokenToText(token), len);


After recompiling / make update / restarting INN, you should start getting 
log messages with storage tokens, which you can feed to $pathbin/sm and 
have a look at the headers of e offending article.  


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org