> > >What I've noticed is that if there's a reboot while a hung session > >is open, there's a fairly good chance that cache.mmap will be > >corrupted, preventing nntpcached restarting (and generating > >shitloads of errors if it's being run out of inittab) > > > I've been using anonymous mmap()'s so that hasn't been an issue for me. > However, every couple days I go cleanup the nntpcache processes and I > usually end up terminating around 20, so that is a pretty significant dead > server count. It is especially bad if those connections are holding open > NNTP sessions to outside servers, because I'm being charged based on my > maximum concurrent NNTP session count :-) [note: I haven't actually checked > to see if this is the case]. > > Evan Can you ktrace -p or strace -p oen of these processes to see what it's doing? What does the proctile info say? Cheers, Julian.
