Request for summarized inode problem

[Jeff Tye sys adm]

This has probably been asked a zillion times before but could somebody
please tell me in a short paragraph or two about what causes the inode table
to get crashed when running news.

It used to happen on my system alot (everyday) but now happens maybe once
every two weeks (always at an inconvenient time). What causes it? Is it a bug
in news? Or is it a bug in UNIX? Why don't other programs cause it to
happen? (at least on my system)

Is there a fix on the horizon? I hate having to run down to my office in 
the middle of the night to run 'fsck' to fix the inode table. :-(

-- 
Jeff Tye
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