inn2 problem (core dump, history-files > 2 GB)

[Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com>]

Hi list,

I have a critical problem with inn2. It appears that the history-file
has exeeded the 2G limit, and every time I start inn, it just crash with
a core-dump.

Questions:

  1) How do I recover (fast) from the problem? I have
	30 peers that try to send me feed, and
	who also urgently waits for feed from me.

  2) How do I perevent this from happening again?



I'm Running Debian GNU/Linux stable on a Intel Pentium 4 machine with 1
GB physical ram.

news@news:~$ ls -l /var/lib/news/history*
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news 2147483647 Jun 28 01:09 
	/var/lib/news/history
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news        120 Jun 28 01:09 
	/var/lib/news/history.dir
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  352461552 Jun 28 01:09 
	/var/lib/news/history.hash
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  234974368 Jun 28 01:09 
	/var/lib/news/history.index
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news 2147483647 Jun 19 08:14 
	/var/lib/news/history.n
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news        113 Jun 27 07:05 	
	/var/lib/news/history.n.dir
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news          0 Jun 27 07:05
	/var/lib/news/history.n.hash
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news          0 Jun 27 07:05 
	/var/lib/news/history.n.index


news:/var/spool/news# gdb /usr/lib/news/bin/innd articles/core
Core was generated by `/usr/lib/news/bin/innd -p 3 -C'.
Program terminated with signal 25, File size limit exceeded.

Backtrace:
#0  0x40388e18 in write () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) back
#0  0x40388e18 in write () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x403ee880 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x4032a552 in _IO_file_write () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x40328fbe in _IO_do_write () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x40328f56 in _IO_do_write () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x40329bc7 in _IO_file_sync () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0x4031eb7c in fflush () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0x080955fa in hisv6_check ()
#8  0x080956ee in hisv6_write ()
#9  0x080918b9 in HISwrite ()
#10 0x0806fd09 in InndHisWrite ()
#11 0x08055292 in ARTpost ()
#12 0x0805e877 in NCwriteshutdown ()
#13 0x0805fca9 in NCwriteshutdown ()
#14 0x0805ba99 in CHANreadloop ()
#15 0x0805ddc0 in main ()


Jarle
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