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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <2872@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 88 14:44:36 GMT
References: <3899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <22409@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: spaf@arthur.cs.purdue.edu.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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All the news, spool and lib, in the Dept. of Computer Sciences here is
kept in a 32Mb partition on "arthur" and all the other machines mount
it via NFS.  A larger partition would be nice, but we don't have 
enough disk to go around as is.

Right now, the disk is 70% full, but that is due largely to schools
being out for break; normally, that partition runs about 95% full.  We
seem to hit 100% about every 4 to 6 weeks (averaged over the last 5
months that I've been here!).

Expiration times:
	2 days -- junk,talk.all,comp.binaries.all,comp.sys.all,control
	7 days -- purdue.cs.news
	14 days -- purdue.cs.all,!purdue.cs.news
	5 days -- all other groups, including inet groups, no alt groups
All history information is kept 5 weeks (35 days).

Yes, expire runs 4 times a night.  It's a Vax 8600, soon to be switched
to a Sequent Symmetry, so the cpu cycles aren't a big concern,
especially considering the small number of articles present.  It's
unlikely that we'll switch to C news expire until NNTP interfaces to it
and it exits beta test.
-- 
Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf