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From: obed!steve@alberta.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Newzheimer's Syndrome
Message-ID: <1638@pembina.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 00:24:29 GMT
References: <536@happym.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Alberta: Biochemistry , Edmonton, AB
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From article <536@happym.UUCP>, by kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt):
} In article <576@mbph.UUCP> hybl@mbph.UUCP (Albert Hybl  Dept of Biophysics  SM)
} relates how he has discovered that his system has the SYSV inode cache bug.
} 
} There is a boundary error in many System V's which causes a file system 
} to fail to refill its inode cache when it runs out under a certain 
} (internal) condition.  The problem is not likely to occur except when 
} hundreds or thousands of files are created with no intervening 
} deletions.  News, processing batches, does that routinely, so it tends 
} to trigger the bug. 

unh, so, why not just have rnews create and delete dome random file 
every time it stores a new item (or after, say, every few items).

This should be easy enough to do.... (If nobody else does it, I 
might get around to it this week, myself...).