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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Steady state news.
Message-ID: <BP0__T*@b-tech.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 15:13:57 GMT
References: <Faivp#r3@cs.psu.edu> <1990Dec12.020442.4407@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
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>>Why not expire constantly?  Every time you receive some articles,
>>remove some other articles and free an equivalent amount of space.
>
>We've recently gone to twice-daily expires.  Since Cnews expire
>runs so quick, it's not been a significant load on the systems and
>had done wonders to level out disk usage in /usr/spool/news.  We

I went to automatic, on demand, expires (run from rnews) a long time 
ago.  Much better than any kind of guessing needed disk space 
approach.  I agree that a smarter continuous expire could be even more 
efficient (and more difficult to implement).  

Sources are available via anon ftp from ais.org:~ftp/pub/cnews.speedups.Z


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Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us