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From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: tor.news,ont.uucp,news.config
Subject: Re: genat down with disk troubles (Lsuc problems too)
Message-ID: <360@spectrix.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 17:30:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: spectrix.360
Posted: Mon Dec 28 12:30:45 1987
References: <1987Dec23.161042.2776@utstat.uucp>
Reply-To: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1987Dec23.161042.2776@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp writes:
>I spoke with Mike Stephenson of Genamation (the local Pyramid dealers)
>this afternoon, and he reports that genat has been down for the past few
>days with a broken Eagle, but repairmen are working on the Eagle now,
>and genat should either be up by the end of the afternoon, or will be
>down for the holidays.

Genat seems to still be down, but "gen400" (A NCR 32/400 Tower) is
answering it's phone calls.  Mike is trying to bring news up on it.
Keep your fingers crossed.

>If genat is down for the holidays, utzoo does not have the disk space
>to hold the unsent news that is queued for genat, so genat and sites
>downstream from it will lose some news.

C-news's batcher is supposed to prevent that - it meters stuff so as
to not fill up the queue.  Genat won't lose anything (on utzoo's side)
until utzoo starts expireing some of the articles that are queued but
not batched yet.  Then again, gen400 may start dropping stuff once
it starts picking things up again.

Lsuc is running EXTREMELY short of disk space and I have had to take
drastic action (prevented uucico on inbound stuff, and commented out 
all C-news batching and unbatching) until expire can catch up (C-news
had blown both /dev/spool and /dev/usr - 4.5Mb of *compressed* news sitting
in incoming from *one* day! - C-news isn't supposed to blow disks, and
I've added even more metering - don't know why this is happening).  
utzoo has been pumping an incredible amount of stuff.  Where in hell is 
it all coming from?

HCR seems to have been down since Dec 24th.  Chewing up valuable
spool space on lsuc.  Sickkids seems partially stuck.

Spectrix seems to have weathered most of the storm pretty well (but
we're not a full feed, and we have some suspicious zero-length
files lying around...).
-- 
Chris Lewis, Spectrix Microsystems Inc,
UUCP: {uunet!mnetor, utcsri!utzoo, lsuc}!spectrix!clewis
Phone: (416)-474-1955