Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is my C News expire slow..?
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.152707.17939@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4633@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 15:27:07 GMT

In article <4633@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> chohan@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Harpal Chohan) writes:
>The setup is a DEC 5400 running Ultrix 4.0 and C News 12-Mar-90. ...
>I have 20 days worth of news history and expire takes about 90 mins.
>Does this sound right?? Seems way over the 30 mins other folk
>have been mentioning.

This is rather slow.  However, it's not hard to figure out why:  you're
using an old C News from the pre-dbz days.  Upgrading to current software
will speed things up quite a bit.
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