bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) (06/23/91)
I've had a problem with 'mthreads' dying recently. This is an excerpt from my mt.log file: Jun 17 05:30 Processed 245 groups: added 590 articles, expired 0. Jun 17 07:27 Processed 193 groups: added 436 articles, expired 0. Jun 17 09:37 Processed 1 group: added 31 articles, expired 0. Jun 17 10:25 Processed 182 groups: added 414 articles, expired 0. Jun 17 10:38 Processed 47 groups: added 92 articles, expired 0. Jun 17 18:05 mthreads daemon started. Jun 17 18:07 ** interrupt 10 ** Jun 17 18:21 mthreads daemon started. Jun 17 18:22 ** interrupt 10 ** Jun 18 18:25 mthreads daemon started. Jun 18 18:30 mthreads halted. Jun 18 18:30 Processed 49 groups: added 1376 articles, expired 0. Jun 18 18:30 Turned 2 groups on. Jun 18 18:32 mthreads daemon started. Jun 18 18:48 ** interrupt 10 ** Jun 18 20:56 mthreads daemon started. Jun 18 21:01 mthreads halted. Jun 18 21:01 Processed 92 groups: added 435 articles, expired 0. Jun 18 21:46 mthreads daemon started. Jun 18 21:52 ** interrupt 10 ** Jun 20 20:13 mthreads daemon started. Jun 20 20:57 ** interrupt 11 ** Jun 22 23:03 mthreads daemon started. It seems that the deamon is dying with interrrupt 10 and interrupt 11. This is on a 386/25 with 8mb of RAM, running ESIX 3.2D, and Cnews. The only new thing I know of is the recent automatic addition of a bunch of newsgroups -- I now have about 1400 groups. I start mthreads with the command mthreads -a -d. I've noticed that it is a very large program. Right now, for example, it's running and its SZ is 530K!! This machine seems to be much less reliable when it's swapping, so maybe there's a problem related to memory consumption and trn ? Anyone else having problems with mthreads, particularly on ESIX systems with 8mb or less of RAM? Thanks in advance. Bill p.s. Did that news.software.readers group ever get started? Even though I have almost 1400 groups here, I have'nt' seen it yet. -- bill@unixland.natick.ma.us ...!uunet!think!unixland!bill OR ..!uunet!world!unixland!bill heiser@world.std.com Public Access Unix 508-655-3848(2400) 508-651-8723(HST) 508-651-8733(PEP-V32)