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From: oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C-News: huge history.pag-file
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.150109.4095@odbffm.incom.de>
Date: 4 Feb 91 15:01:09 GMT
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Hi!
I've been running C-News for about a week, and no I've got the first big
problem (not quite unusual):
Look at my history-files in /usr/lib/news:
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news      205068 Feb  4 04:40 history
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news          63 Feb  4 04:40 history.dir
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     17281588 Feb  4 04:40 history.pag
and see how many articles I have:
   3183  10584 205068 /usr/lib/news/history
And my history.pag file is about 17MB large.
Due to this size (I think), expire and relaynews take _hours_, I just
cancelled expire that's been running for 3 hours.
I used the dbz-package from C-News and even mkhistory builds a file same
size. What could be wrong with it? Is there any option I ignored when
building the doit.* files? Should I've had to answer 'no' to the question
about the available disk-space? Should I use another dbm (but my feed's
using dbz, and he doesn't have similar problems)???
Many questions, and I hope, somebody will be able to help me....

Please answer by mail (if possible), I don't know, whether I'll be able to
get all the news, especially not with this performance (sometimes (!),
relaynews is processing a message every two minutes !!!)

Thanx, oli
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