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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 2.11.19 w/dbz not rejecting articles
Message-ID: <1990Aug4.055532.14603@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5693@obdient.chi.il.us>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 90 05:55:32 GMT

In article <5693@obdient.chi.il.us> blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair) writes:
>I would expect dbz performance to start getting real terrible around
>the time file size <= 1.05 * # of articles in history file.

Note that the current dbz -- version 3.0, shipped with C News -- resizes
itself automatically if used right, and also handles overflow (in between
resizings, or if the software doesn't invoke it properly for resizing)
gracefully and fairly efficiently.
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