Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pnews failure, *not* in a moderated group
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.224630.11927@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov30.111026.66@panix.uucp>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 22:46:30 GMT

In article <1990Nov30.111026.66@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>First of all, once in a while new articles never get posted. Using rn, I
>followup to an article (or make a new one), do everything normally, and send
>off the article. Something happens, since shelling out of rn and running ps
>shows various cnews-things (like inject and anne.jones) running. But the
>article just vanishes into a black hole...
>The other problem is the (very infrequent) dropped newsbatch... [symptoms]
>This only happens when cunbatch is told by spacefor that there's not enough
>room for an incoming batch. With close to 60MB free on the spool disk, this
>was simply not possible...

A possible reason for both of these is that your system is hitting the
ceiling on some other resource, like processes or open files, and programs
are failing as a result.  We know there can be problems with spacefor if
it hits such a ceiling; the result tends to be a "no space available" report.
It's plausible for inews to hit similar difficulties, although I'd have to
put heads together with Geoff to produce a detailed explanation.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry