dws@cseg.uucp (David W. Summers) (11/23/88)
I got the NNTP Patch 3 a few weeks (months?) back and applied it and every-
thing seems to be working great. I really like the "Out of Space" part of the
patch which checks to see whether there is enough space on the disk to enter
the article into the system.
However, I have one question which I have not seen anybody address: Why
stop at just checking the number of disk blocks? Why not also check the
number of I-NODES available? That information is included in the structure
returned from the call that checks the number of available disk blocks. I
couldn't see any reason not to put that check into the same place as the
disk block check, and modified 'misc.c' (I think) to do that. It seems to
have caused no problems and greatly helped on my machine where the number of
I-NODES gets close to 0 quite often. Now whenever the number of I-NODES goes
below some minimum (500?) the NNTP daemon refuses to transfer (is that the
correct terminology?) any more articles (just like it does when the number of
disk blocks gets below some minumum).
Like I said, it seems to be working great. If anyone is interested I can
send the diffs. Is there some reason that I'm not thinking about where that
could get me into trouble? If not, then I would like to see that in the next
patch to NNTP (the next time one comes out).
Comments?
- David Summers
(dws@cseg.uucp)