Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews expire takes forever
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.222003.10058@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <173@usaos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 22:20:03 GMT

In article <173@usaos.UUCP> root@usaos.UUCP (Warren D. Calhoun) writes:
>Running a test-bed setup of cnews (patches to 25 May 90), expire takes several
>hours to run and creates a history.pag file that appears to take up 25 meg.  I
>know that due to the holes, this apparent size is not right, but what is the
>real scoop on expire run-time and history.pag size.  The system currently has
>~5000 articles.

Something is very badly wrong with your system.  (Have you taken a look
through notebook/problems?)  It is difficult to say more without knowing
details, e.g. are you using dbz or dbm?

On utzoo, a Sun 3/180 with good disks, keeping one month of history (circa
135000 history lines), expire typically takes half an hour or so.  The .pag
file from dbz is circa 6 bytes per history line.

You might also try running the expire regression test:  "make r" in the
expire source directory.
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