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From: mday@iconsys.icon.com (Matthew T. Day)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: history file size
Message-ID: <15@iconsys.icon.com>
Date: 16 Feb 90 09:32:19 GMT
References: <4364@mhres.mh.nl>
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Organization: Sanyo/Icon International, Orem, Utah
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From article <4364@mhres.mh.nl>, by jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans):
> I'm running 2.11 pl 8 on HP9000/300 with HP-UX 6.2.
> I have about 60,000 articles on-line, and my history files (I
> have SystemV "history.d/[0-9]" files) total up to about 4Mb.
> I'm considering to use dbm in the news software, hoping this will
> speed things up. I rebuilt the dbm history file, which grew to
> more than 8 Mb in size. Is this normal? Since only the article ID
> and the history file position are kept in the dbm file, I would
> have expected it to be 50-60% of the history file size.

I would suggest getting the "dbz" replacement for the DBM library package,
it reduces the size of the file quite a bit, and I hear it's faster.  Also,
try to get the latest release of B 2.11, patch level 19.  That might solve
troubles as well.
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- Matthew T. Day, Sanyo/Icon International, mday@iconsys.icon.com