det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (03/01/91)
My ~news/errlog files are filling up with the following pairs of lines:
relaynews: error writing `/usr/local/lib/news/Cnews/ctl/history', probably the
disk filled
relaynews: error closing history file (File too large)
Besides the obvious, what is creating this message? I have enough disk space
(i believe - unless it is an instantaneous surge of huge proportions!):
hawkmoon$ dfspace
/ : Disk space: 2.56 MB of 14.27 MB available (17.94%).
/usr : Disk space: 31.26 MB of 304.00 MB available (10.28%).
/usr/bin : Disk space: 33.12 MB of 45.42 MB available (72.92%).
Total Disk Space: 66.95 MB of 363.70 MB available (18.41%).
My ulimit (and that of news) is pretty high:
hawkmoon$ ulimit
65535
and the files look fine, sort of:
hawkmoon$ ls -ls hist*
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 May 8 1990 hist
4129 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 2097152 Feb 28 11:30 history
0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 0 May 8 1990 history.dat
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 103 Mar 1 00:16 history.dir
0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 0 May 8 1990 history.map
4130 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 2097541 Feb 27 01:57 history.o
431 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 218068 Mar 1 00:16 history.pag
So what is the problem here? Can the history files be growing past the 31MBs
that i have left in /usr sometime during the night and i'm not noticicing or
something?
Actually, i wouldn't have even noticed a problem with this except that i have
seen a *few* duplicate articles that should have been screened out and i just
*happened* to peruse throught the errlog files (which i don't do too often).
derek
derek
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In article <1991Mar1.062149.5151@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes: >relaynews: error writing `/usr/local/lib/news/Cnews/ctl/history', probably the >disk filled >relaynews: error closing history file (File too large) > >Besides the obvious, what is creating this message? ... The "probably the disk filled" is actually just a random stab in the dark, not based on any solid information; Geoff really should think about changing that message, or at least changing "probably" to "perhaps". However, "File too large" in the close message is much more definitive. That means your system really is complaining about a file being too large, and that probably means you've got a problem with ulimit. >4129 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 2097152 Feb 28 11:30 history In case it escaped your attention, 2097152 is *exactly* two megabytes... -- "But this *is* the simplified version | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for the general public." -S. Harris | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry