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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: trn's mthreads is dying
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.032208.20270@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 03:22:08 GMT


I've had a problem with 'mthreads' dying recently.  This is an excerpt 
from my mt.log file:

Jun 17 05:30 Processed 245 groups:  added 590 articles, expired 0.
Jun 17 07:27 Processed 193 groups:  added 436 articles, expired 0.
Jun 17 09:37 Processed 1 group:  added 31 articles, expired 0.
Jun 17 10:25 Processed 182 groups:  added 414 articles, expired 0.
Jun 17 10:38 Processed 47 groups:  added 92 articles, expired 0.
Jun 17 18:05 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 17 18:07 ** interrupt 10 **
Jun 17 18:21 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 17 18:22 ** interrupt 10 **
Jun 18 18:25 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 18 18:30 mthreads halted.
Jun 18 18:30 Processed 49 groups:  added 1376 articles, expired 0.
Jun 18 18:30 Turned 2 groups on.
Jun 18 18:32 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 18 18:48 ** interrupt 10 **
Jun 18 20:56 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 18 21:01 mthreads halted.
Jun 18 21:01 Processed 92 groups:  added 435 articles, expired 0.
Jun 18 21:46 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 18 21:52 ** interrupt 10 **
Jun 20 20:13 mthreads daemon started.
Jun 20 20:57 ** interrupt 11 **
Jun 22 23:03 mthreads daemon started.

It seems that the deamon is dying with interrrupt 10 and interrupt 11.

This is on a 386/25 with 8mb of RAM, running ESIX 3.2D, and Cnews.
The only new thing I know of is the recent automatic addition of a bunch
of newsgroups -- I now have about 1400 groups.  I start mthreads with
the command mthreads -a -d.

I've noticed that it is a very large program.  Right now, for example,
it's running and its SZ is 530K!!    This machine seems to be much less
reliable when it's swapping, so maybe there's a problem related to 
memory consumption and trn ?  

Anyone else having problems with mthreads, particularly on ESIX systems
with 8mb or less of RAM?

Thanks in advance.
Bill

p.s.  Did that news.software.readers group ever get started?  Even though
I have almost 1400 groups here, I have'nt' seen it yet.

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