Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!lclark!dan
From: dan@lclark.UUCP (Dan Revel)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Why do my expires take so long to run?
Message-ID: <210@lclark.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:49:55 GMT
Reply-To: dan@lclark.UUCP ()
Distribution: na
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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Keywords: news expire slow

My crontab executes a shell script at midnight and it takes 15 hours to
expire everything (VAX 750/4.3bsd, load average < 3.00).  This just doesn't
seem right, does it?
The source has an sccs version # 2.47 and is dated 10/23/86 (expire.c).
My shell script looks something like this [my edits in []'s]:

/usr/lib/news/expire -e 7 -E 28 -I -n alt.aquaria [many newsgroups follow]
[ 20 similar lines ]
/usr/lib/news/expire -e 14 -E 28 -I -n test

Even the last expire takes 26 minutes, any ideas about what's going on,
or what I can do to speed things up?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
dan@lclark
tektronix!reed!lclark!dan	"Set the way-back machine Sherman ... "
= == := |-) ;^)