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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Total traffic through uunet for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <1886@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 19:41:31 EST
Article-I.D.: ho95e.1886
Posted: Sun Nov 22 19:41:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Nov-87 04:36:26 EST
References: <3372@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46133-Bill.Stewart,2G218,x0705,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary: It's really grown!

In article <3372@uunet.UU.NET> newsstats@uunet.UU.NET writes:
:
:19948 articles, totalling 33.786759 Mbytes, were submitted from 2291 different
:	Category	Count	Mbytes		Percent
:	comp		6991	14.319736	 42%
:	rec		7583	9.477052	 28%
:	soc		2904	5.306719	 15%
:	talk		2145	3.393961	 10%

News traffic has really grown in the past year - this is 2.4 MB/day!
The inet distribution isn't listed separately, but most of it's in 
comp.all, which has gone from about 50% to 42% in a year, so it hasn't
made a major dent; much of the growth has been in the rec/soc/talk groups.  

Average Propagation Delay to uunet has increased from 0.9 to 1.1 days;
I assume much of this is because people only call uunet at night.

How have people handled the additional load?  I've had to expire
articles much faster than before, mainly because my history file is
limited to 1 megabyte (System V ulimit braindamage), though total disk
volume has also been a problem.  Similarly, I've had rnews workload
problems during the day (ho95e is an elderly 1MIPS machine which has
real users on it); I hope CNews will help when I get it running.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs