Newzheimer's Syndrome

[Stephen Samuel]

>From article <536 at happym.UUCP>, by kent at happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt):
} In article <576 at mbph.UUCP> hybl at 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...).