From: Adam Bentley (ccx009@coventry.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 11:40:39 EDT
Fixed the makedbz problem by doing a ulimit -d unlimited in 'ksh' before
running the command.
Any comments regarding the other stuff welcome however (espcially CNFS).
thanks
Adam.
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Adam Bentley wrote:
>
> 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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