Xref: utzoo news.admin:12452 news.software.b:6982 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!rex!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!kherron From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Old news is coming in fast. Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 16:51:10 GMT References: <1991Feb27.193118.22487@mp.cs.niu.edu> Distribution: na Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 20 emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: > HELP! My news partition is filling up fast. Could it be due to all of > those Jan 30th articles that have suddenly started coming in? >I would recommend strongly that the next C news patch have an >(optional) means of discarding news that is too old. We're running news on a 26-processor sequent. This machine is generally I/O bound; it's load average rarely gets above 0.8. I would gladly trade a bit of performance for improved old-article rejection, especially since it would be "only" CPU time. On the other hand, I'm keeping 38 days of message ID's, so I haven't seen many old articles either. -- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu University of Kentucky (606) 257-2975 Department of Mathematics "Never trust gimmicky gadgets" -- the Doctor