Out of inodes while unbatching news

[Pat Myrto]

In article <fkk.646998181 at wynge>, fkk at wynge.Central.Sun.COM (Frank Kaefer - Sun Germany CSD - Munich) writes:
< del at fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
< 
< | In a nutshell: When news is unbatching, at some point the number of free
< | inodes suddenly goes to zero, and the news starts trying to fill the bit
< | bucket on the floor.  Killing rnews, unmounting the file system, fsck'ing,
< | and remounting brings back the free inodes.  The problem occurs at a random
< | time, from a hundred articles to a couple of thousand articles.  The problem
< 
< I have EXACTLY the same problem ! And I am also extremly desperate.
< My machine is a AT386 running Interactive IX 2.0.2. If anyone has
< any idea, I would be very glad to get some help.

I had the same difficulty - I had been messing with the kernal tunable
parameters, but what I had was sane.  When in desparation I used
kconfig and set the tuning back to one of the defaults for memory
size, the problem went away, and hasn't returned (yet).  Some
combination apparantly tickles the infamous (apparantly not fixed)
inode bug.

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