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From: igp@camcon.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re^2: Daily news volume disagrees w/uunet stats
Message-ID: <3330@titan.camcon.co.uk>
Date: 12 Jul 89 13:09:22 GMT
References: <123@uucs1.UUCP> <1989Jul10.223958.28264@fxgrp.fx.com>
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grady@semprini.fx.com (Steven Grady) writes:
>In article <123@uucs1.UUCP> gaf@uucs1.UUCP () writes:
>>the daily average at uunet always seems to be 4 - 5 Mb per day.
>>we should be getting 3 - 4 Mb a day.  Instead we're getting around 6 Mb!
>>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.

tit%67 wc -c * | tail -1
  163166 total
tit%68 du
  190     .

Maybe this has something to do with it. (contents of .../news/admin)
Most news items are quite short, so the part-block wastage (+directory blocks)
will add to the "du" figures.
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