Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!drew From: drew@lethe.uucp (Drew Sullivan) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: expire oink Message-ID: <1990Aug22.165739.6918@lethe.uucp> Date: 22 Aug 90 16:57:39 GMT References: <1990Aug19.202420.140@m2xenix.psg.com> <1990Aug21.154310.20719@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Systems Software Lines: 15 In article <1990Aug21.154310.20719@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >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. My 386 runing Xenix take about 10 minutes to do a 22 day expire. This seem reasonable to me. -- -- Drew Sullivan,