Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: expire oink
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.154310.20719@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug19.202420.140@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 15:43:10 GMT

In article <1990Aug19.202420.140@m2xenix.psg.com> news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) writes:
>C News has been running quite happily here for some months.  Unfortunately,
>with a 21 day window (which still does not get all the trash), expire is quite
>the hog, 11MB and four hours (while, for comparison, a full pathalias build
>takes 30 minutes).

That's awfully slow for a dbz expire.  Ours typically takes 30 minutes to
do 28 days' worth (and I am unhappy with this and intend to improve it).
I have no very specific suggestions, though; insufficient data.
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