We had a similar problem and my admin(aos) had to re-write the file locking code.We never did get it working entirely to my satisfaction, though it did fix the overview problems. We are now running Typhoon (Sparc20/630) and all of our INN problems (or most anyways) have gone away.

--- On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:40:14 +0200 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

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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

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