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From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: tuning number of inodes for cnews
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.192714.5094@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 4 Mar 91 19:27:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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In article <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes:
>I was wondering if on a sparcstation 1+ running sunos 4.1.1 
>more inodes are needed (or would be useful) for the news spool
>directory than suninstall provides by default on a 100Mb partition. 
>
>I raise this questions because I was told "you must double the
>number of inodes in the news partition", but there is no mention of
>this topic in the cnews docs that I can find.
>
>Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
We run with 65536 inodes on a 150Meg partition, the max allowed for a single
partition by SysVR3.2 and sometimes that isn't enough, even with an agressive
expire time :-(

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