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From: schnoebe@convex.COM (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: does cnews correct the inode problem?
Keywords: Cnews inode ialloc s5ialloc
Message-ID: <2112@convex.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 17:47:50 GMT
References: <200981@hrc.UUCP> <1989Oct16.043634.3051@twwells.com>
Sender: news@convex.UUCP
Reply-To: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
Organization: Central Iowa (Model)  Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
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In article <1989Oct16.043634.3051@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
-In article <200981@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
-: I have had it! The alloca/inode problem has brought my system down
-: 3 times today. I need to correct it. Does cnews correct the problem?
-
-No. It is a kernel bug.

	Yes, the problem is a kernel bug, but it has been my experience
that C news doesn't aggravate the bug.  I say this because I have a
patched version of ialloc.c ( s5ialloc.c ) running on my Microport
System V/AT system that tells me when the bug would manifest itself,
and I haven't seen any messages from it since I started running C
news.  ( of course I had set my inode count very high while running B
news to help keep the problem at arms length, along with scripts to
change init states and run fsck on the news partition. )

-: If not, what do I need to do to correct the problem. I don't have the
-: source code, but I do have the object code that I can re-link.
-
-What kind of system do you have? I just posted a fix for Interactive
-2.0.2. I have a fix for Microport SysV/3.0e. I have had other
-information sent to me as well, which, once I get it organized, I'll
-post.

	AT&T has also issued fixes for their systems, and Interactive
claims to have fixed it with their 2.0.2 release.  Comment to them at
386ixsupp@isc780c.isc.com if they haven't.

	Otherwise, beat on your vendor for them to fix the problem.

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Eric Schnoebelen					eric@egsner.cirr.com
"My other computer is a Convex"				schneobe@convex.com