INN 2.3.3 on Tru64 4.0f

From: Adam Bentley (ccx009@coventry.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 08:40:36 EDT


Hi all,
      looking for advice on using INN 2.3.3 on 4.0F. I've already seen the
posts which recommend using CNFS and ADVFS (but I believe that was
reffering to doing it on 5.x). So any advice for those of us on 4.0f is
welcome... as I intend to use CNFS, BMT and extent problems should not be
an issue. However what I have hit is a resource issue when setting things
up...

after I get a newsgroups and active file from my other server I run a
makedbz -i to create the new history files I will be using. Problem is
that makedbz fails as it cannot malloc sufficent space. Now I am guessing
this is a ulimit/shell resource issue but I did the same on my 4.0d box
(which has the same ulimit and sysconfigtab settings) and it worked...

any idea what i need to tweak here?

bash$ makedbz -i
dbz.c:1287 Can't malloc 60000000 bytes: Not enough space

bash$ ulimit -a

core file size (blocks) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes) 131072
file size (blocks) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 507536
stack size (kbytes) 2048
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
pipe size (512 bytes) 8
open files 4096
virtual memory (kbytes) 1048576

and the only entry in sysconfigtab (added anyway is)

proc:
        maxusers = 256

Machine is an Alphaserver 800 5/500 whith 512mb ram. The news storage is
behind an HSZ70 (Raid 5, 2 partitions, 36gb for overview/software and s/w,
144gb for spool)

yes I know they should be on different spindles rather than partitions on
the same raidset and in a perfect world, I would be a millionare :-)

comments welcome to me please, and I will post a Summary

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