Xref: utzoo news.admin:3539 news.software.b:1642 news.sysadmin:1000 comp.unix.questions:9430 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!alberta!obed!steve 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 Lines: 16 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...).