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From: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews expire problems
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.182952.26048@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 18:29:52 GMT
Reply-To: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
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I recently switched from running Bnews 2.11 to Cnews with patches thru
Nov 1989.  I think I am missing something as my news partition is 
filling up, even with expire set to 8 days.  Under Bnews, I was expiring
articles after 12 days and had about 30MBytes free on average.  The
news spool partition is 200Mbytes.  Here is the expire -v output:

	Thu Jan 18 01:00:03 PST 1990
	24420 kept, 1174 expired
	9660 residual lines
	0 links archived, 1310 junked, 8 missing

What are the "residual lines"?  This number grows each day.  Here is a copy
of explist:

	# hold onto history lines 20 days, nobody gets >90 days
	/expired/			x	20	-
	/bounds/			x	0-1-90	-

	# hold moderated groups longer
	sci,rec,talk,soc		m	14	-

	# real noise gets thrown away fast
	junk,control			x	2	-

	# sources and binaries
	comp.sources,comp.binaries	m	20	-
	alt.sources			x	20	-

	# default:  10 days and no archive
	all				x	8	-

Any ideals or suggestions?  The system is running BSD4.3.  
Thanks in advance!

-- 
Ron Nash
San Diego State University
Internet:  nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu
UUCP:      ucsd!sdsu!ucselx!nash