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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews building up files in "in.coming"
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.023352.8840@twwells.com>
Date: 25 Oct 89 02:33:52 GMT
References: <1989Oct22.192159.4827@acd4.UUCP> <1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
: In article <1989Oct22.192159.4827@acd4.UUCP> mjb@acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          ) writes:
: >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...
:
: If you are running a current C News, it will (a) remove the batch files
: after every 50 files processed, or (b) remove the batch file after each
: file processed, depending on whether space is tight or not.  This was
: a deliberate change from our earlier version that always did (b).

This really isn't adequate. Because it assumes relatively small
batch files. On my system, I get batches of 250K (compressed) and
up, and having them accumulate can be a real bear. Especially when
disk space gets tight. (Why such big batches? It makes sense if
you have a 9600+ BPS modem with built in error correction. Like my
Telebit.)

Could you either make this based on the file sizes, or provide an
option or configuration parameter to make it delete after each
batch? Perhaps you could make that 50 a configuration parameter?

This behavior has messed me over more than a couple of times.

Now that I think about it, I have a feeling that there are
several assumptions in C news that are invalid when batch sizes
are typically very large. Perhaps you might want to think in terms
of a configuration options for these kinds of systems.

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