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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more?
Message-ID: <1132@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 03:29:18 GMT
References: <13218@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1375@crackers.clearpoint.com> <1990Oct17.185635.22710@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <1990Oct17.185635.22710@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
 
>BUT, if the group is split, there is _nothing_ to prevent your site
>carrying, and you subscribing to, _all_ the subgroups, and still seeing
>all the same articles, just a little better organized. I think this is a
>bogus argument against reorganizing c.s.a, and I'd like not to see it
>raised again unless with some proof that it means anything.

I got an email from Kent in response to my original posting here.  Let me
again point out my stand (non-amiga user but have many on the system), if
you split the c.s.a, I will carry all and have no problems.  But without
the split and as the volume grows, I just pull c.s.a limit on the machine
with shorter expires.

Ideal limit for a directory under Unix is just about 300 articles.  I am
running more than that, and the system performance shows.  When the c.s.a
group amount of messages got so large that it impacted system performance
noticeably, I just put c.s.a on an expire that is 1/3 the amount of any
other group.  I don't have problems but c.s.a readers do.

Don't be deluded by thinking you can handle everything in one group, and
use your newsreader to help you through the quagmire.  Try your hand at
adminstering a system for awhile and you might see what I mean.  It's not a
space problem for me as I have 250 megs dedicated to the news section
alone, but I can't keep many days available on line because of the huge
directories it creates.  

My first indication of the problem was when the system mailed root a
message saying "WARNING - HUGE DIRECTORY - comp/sys/amgia" (or words close
to that effect. When the news software complains running an expire you KNOW
you have a problem.



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