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Re: newsserver PLEASE HELP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Taylor)
Wed Dec 2 21:18:45 1998
From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 20:40:48 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 18:04:21 -0800
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In message <98120220435700.01468@localhost.localdomain>, Jacek Andreas Matulla
writes:
> Hi all,
>
> since no one responded till now I have to repost.
>
> I have some problems running leafnode...
>
> First I'd like to know what's the latest version of it? I'm currently using
> leafnode 1.4-5 on a RH 4.2 system. PII 300 with 64MB + 128MB swap.
Don't know. I'm running 1.5-1 under Red Hat 5.1.
[snip]
> fetch is very slow after having retrieved the articles. I only see much disk
> activity for about 5 minutes or more. Then when trying to read a group with
> netscape I think that lefnode is invoked and the disk activity begins again.
>It
> then takes up to 10 minutes for the articles of ONLY one group to be retrieve
>d.
> In this case some 200-400 messages. This repeats for about
> every group. Netscape is showing for one group 40K of messages. It seems that
> the more messages have already been read it takes longer for retrieving
> new messages. I have no idea why it takes so long for fetch/leafnode to
> retrieve/sort the messages.
I have never experienced this. Perhaps it's the USENET server?
> In my /var/log/messages I have a line like this:
> Nov 27 19:43:31 localhost fetch[535]: writev() for .overview failed: Invalid
>argument
>
> Nov 27 20:10:33 localhost leafnode[631]: writev() for .overview failed: Inval
>id
> argument
>
> What do this messages want say me?
I don't recall seeing these messages either.
> How can I make leafnode faster?
Upgrade. If there isn't any change try another USENET server and see if
there is any change. BTW, one other possibility is you just have a slow/
overloaded link.
> Then lefnode does not remove the messages as it should. They should expire in
> 5
> days which should leave 10000 messages max. But I have always about 40000
> messages and texpire does not remove them...
Did you add texpire to cron? I have texpire executable in /etc/cron.daily.
Also check your /usr/lib/leafnode/config file. Specifically the expire and
groupexpire variables.
> Is there any other newsserver with similar easy configuration as leafnode?
Most probably. I've never tried any since I have been quite happy with
leafnode.
Bob
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