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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Comments on C news
Message-ID: <1989Jun23.104001.284@twwells.com>
Date: 23 Jun 89 10:40:01 GMT
References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> <2277@vicom.COM> <1989Jun22.174603.10483@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Jun22.174603.10483@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
:                                                   I repeat, the space
: checks are meant as disaster mitigation, not to routinely let you run
: safely with disks on the brink of overflow.

Ah, but I do!

To give some input: I run a system where there is, at most, 8M free.
Given the large allocation units on my system, a whole day's feed
will often use it all up. The way I've set this up is to prevent
newsrun from running when there is less than 1M of free space, as a
last ditch measure. But I run expire whenever I have less than 2M
free; this is checked every hour.

It works. I don't run out of disk space, but I do get a whole feed.

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