msync - can someone shed some light please?

[Chris Knipe]

Hi,

When adding groups (ctlinnd newgroup...), the following occurs:

2025-06-12T14:14:57.572314+02:00 nntpspool innd: SERVER msync failed /var/lib/news/active 0x0x7f3f46800000 5062656 Cannot allocate memory
2025-06-12T14:14:57.572335+02:00 nntpspool innd: CNFS: CNFSshutdowncycbuff: flushing 0
2025-06-12T14:14:57.594777+02:00 nntpspool systemd[1]: inn2.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Inn refuses to start up, until I literally remove 1 line from my active file.  As soon as I add them again, the issue reoccurs.  The name of the group being added/removed is of no consequence, the issue is about the amount of groups - that is what is getting me here, I completely fail to understand how inn can't start up with ~107K groups in the active file.

root at nntpspool ~ # cat /var/lib/news/active|wc -l
107411

INN 2.7.3

Inn is using about 4GB RAM, the server has 128GB.  I am pulling my hair out here...

Thnx
Chris

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