Re: TT-CA-000005925;Eskimo North, Inc.;News server full - throttling

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 noc@cidera.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We noticed that your news server was not taking the feed from the Service
> Adaptor at your site.  When we telnet to the news server on port 119, we
> get a message indicating that your news server is full.  At your 
> convenience, could you take a look at this?
> 
> If we can do anything to help, please do not hesitate to contact us at 
> 301-598-0500 x2424 or by email at noc@cidera.com.  We want to work with you to get you the best possible service from the Cidera product.
> 
> Thank you for your assistance,
> 
> Bill Garrett
> bgarrett@cidera.com
> Cidera Network Operations Center Engineer

     The server is doing something weird and I don't understand why.  It hardly
expired any articles the night before last, and now it's been working on an
overview expire for 15 hours (something it normally completes in about an
hour). 

     Doing a trace on the process it seems to be progressing normally and
deleting expired articles from the overview database, as it should, but it is
taking a lot longer than it normally doesn't and at present I have no idea why. 

     It has over 1/2 million articles it is trying to remove in one shot.
I'm afraid to interrupt the process, for fear it would just waste 15 hours
worth of processing that it's already done.