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From: grady@semprini.fx.com (Steven Grady)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Daily news volume disagrees w/uunet stats
Message-ID: <1989Jul10.223958.28264@fxgrp.fx.com>
Date: 10 Jul 89 22:39:58 GMT
References: <123@uucs1.UUCP>
Reply-To: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady)
Organization: FXDevelopment, Mountain View, CA
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In article <123@uucs1.UUCP> gaf@uucs1.UUCP () writes:
>I've been reading news.lists from another site for some months, and
>the daily average at uunet always seems to be 4 - 5 Mb per day.
>
>By my figuring
>we should be getting 3 - 4 Mb a day.  Instead we're getting around 6 Mb!
>That's even higher than the uunet average for all groups!
>
>Do your averages look more like mine or uunet's?

Ours look like yours.  I just did a du on /usr/spool/news, and the
total was about 50 megabytes.  We receive all the standard groups
(including alt, gnu, etc), but no weird ones (biz, bionet, etc).
We expire all groups at 7 days.  So that comes out to about 7 megs/day.

I just switched to C news a week ago, but I did a du before switching,
and the average was about 7 megs/day for B news as well.  I currently run
superkludge, so it's not comp.mail.maps hosing things (it's du totals
about 2.5 megs).  Local newsgroups (ba.*, ca.*, etc) total about 1.5
megs.

I watched the output of du, and almost uniformly each top-level
directory (comp, rec, sci, soc, talk, etc) had about 3/4 the amount
of news that uunet had, for half as much time.  This comes out to
50% more space than expected from uunet's lists.

Anyone know what would cause this?  Problems with uunet?
Longer Path lines?  LLIF?

	Steven
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