I raised this with you in February, I wonder if there has been any
progress.
We run an Intranet news server, with 400 users accessing 50,000 messages
in 100 groups (200Mb of news spool). News never expires. We use the FTS
facility to provide a search engine. Hardware is a Sun Ultra 1 with
128Mb RAM and 256Mb spool file, running Solaris 2.6.
Our problem is that memory usage grows constantly, until all virtual
memory is exhausted after 10-20 days. A restart of DNEWS is necessary to
clear the problem.
Interestingly, memory use does not steadily increase; there are 'jumps'
of 10-20Mb followed by a day or so of steady utilisation. An extract
from dnews.log around the time of a 'jump' is shown below.
29 09:47:22 :warn: feed: Starting SMTP-feed to {web001.hmgcc}
29 09:48:29 :warn: feed: Starting SMTP-feed to {web001.hmgcc}
29 09:49:05 51:warn: xov: Xover file out of order (3) ?
hmgcc.general:6354 6355 1323752
29 09:51:46 16:warn: Sorting xover for (hmgcc.discuss.xxx) as it seems
to have gaps 2/285/388 r=381 len=449
29 09:51:48 :warn: Idle Expire xover group hmgcc.discuss.xxx
29 09:51:49 :warn: xidle: Sort completed
29 09:52:46 51:warn: Sorting xover for (hmgcc.discuss.yyy) as it seems
to have gaps 2/1094/1381 r=1373 len=317
29 09:52:48 :warn: Idle Expire xover group hmgcc.discuss.yyy
29 09:52:54 :warn: xidle: Sort completed
29 09:55:22 :error: Time to switch to the new .fts files
The last line is interesting (but perhaps unrelated) - it occurs every
30 minutes or so.
Output of 'tellnews status' is below.
# tellnews status
200 news.hmgcc DNEWS Version 5.4g5, S0, posting OK
Feed[0]: me *
Feed[1]: ftsfeed
*,!hmgcc.qqq.*,!hmgcc.www.eee.support,!hmgcc.www.ttt.*,!
Feed[2]: web001.hmgcc SMTP Posts=0 0.00/s Rej=0 Req=0 Dup=0 R=100:0:0
Tot=0.00/
s 0.00k/s
Live cache misses 0/0
{connection list snipped}
Disk space 500MB - history*2=5MB,xover=12MB,dbi.idx*2=1MB = 481MB for
piles
Pile 0, 0.0/0.0% 0MB, days=0 none-old-format
Pile 1, 39.4/95.0% 190MB, days=10000 *
Expire started at None, start 0% end 0%
Processed 0 removed 0 deleting 0/0/0 speed 0 pass 0
Pile hist_mins 0, xover_mins 0, resort_mins 0, fillin 0, copy 0
Nothing is being sucked at present.
DB used 189.50MB, Slack 9.52MB 5.03%, DBI Misses 0/0, blocks 0=0k h=98
History: disk 2557k memory 407k/840k, Str 1763k/2066k/11450k Malloc
20952k/20991
k/18397k
Used 197MB=39%, Free work 704Mb, hist 704Mb, spool 704Mb, log 27Mb
xbuild: q=0 sorted=17, fillin=5156 copy=17324
Groups Xover 96 12MB, Cached 119 of 123, GID 125, Uptime 0 day(s) 2
hour(s), XO
ver Cache 12.53%
.
281 Completed
205 closing connection - goodbye!
We also run DNews as an Internet news server under Linux, handling 100Mb
per day. There are no memory problems with this setup.
TIA
Dave Pickles
