We recently (~6-8 weeks ago) put up a F520-110 Filer running 5.0.1 software. When I try to run INN (InterNetNews) 1.7.2 and put it's overview files on the filer, I get Overchan hanging very regularly on a fcntl(F_SETLK,...)/fcntl(F_SETLKW,...) loop.
My question for the assembled guru's is: Is anyone else seeing this? What other information should/could I supply to help?
Yes, we have seen this, with an F330 running 3.1.5. I "fixed" it by simply removing the code that locks the overview files - would rather risk having two processes access the file at the same time than having these loops. As far as I can see, all we risk is one of the readers getting inconsistent overview data for a group - we can live with that.
We recently upgraded to 4.3.3D2 - haven't tried using the locking code again after this upgrade.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no