"Fred Peeterman" <fred@terratec.de> writes: > > ahhhh... so *that's* what 'bad juju' is ;-) > Here's some more bad juju: > Increased maxMmap from 16M to 24M: > system reboot at around 9:30, than these messages follow: > 11:22:48 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed > 12:04:23 nmalloc.c:25:Interrupted system call: > > XMcalloc call from nntpcache.c:__LINE__ for 1 bytes failed > 11:00:10 nmalloc.c:25: XMcalloc call from list.c:__LINE__ for 100 bytes failed > And now nntpcached is gone :-((( > Only about 10 clients connect to the cache. > > News traffic is maybe 10kB aday. > One might believe this should not happen :-(( The amount of shared memory (mmap) used is proportional to the total number of newsgroups in the active files of all servers nntpcache looks at -- not usage. Cheers, Julian.