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From: mjb@acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          )
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: CNews building up files in "in.coming"
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.192159.4827@acd4.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 89 19:21:59 GMT
Reply-To: mjb@acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          )
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute, IN
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I've noticed that when C News is unbatching articles in the in.coming
directory, it doesn't remove the batch files until it is completely
done.  It seems to me that newsrun should remove each file in turn
immediately after unbatching the articles it contains.  In the current
implementation, you have to have room to store each new article twice
(actually about 1.5 times, since the batched file is compressed.)  I'm
currently running patch 23-Jul-89.  (Haven't made time to upgrade to
latest patch yet; my company expects me to do real work!!!)

Apparently newsrun will at least remove these files in the middle of
unbatching if it sees the disk space creep too low.  Since this
lessens the problem of running out of space due to keeping the batches
around, the whole question is probably moot.  I'm curious, though; why
not just remove each file when you are done with it?

Normally, this wouldn't cause me any problems.  However,
/usr/spool/news is not its own segment on our system, it shares with a
couple of other lightly-used directory trees.  Earlier this week our
news feed got screwed up overnight, and I was unbatching nearly a
whole day's worth of news around 9AM.  If we were doing any other work
on that segment, there would have existed a chance of running the
system out of space before CNews finished its current file.  [We
weren't, however.]  Granted, it's a slim chance, but it would be
lessened if CNews would remove batch files one at a time.

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Mike Bryan, Applied Computing Devices, 100 N Campus Dr, Terre Haute IN 47802
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