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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: history file size
Message-ID: <4364@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 14 Feb 90 22:26:28 GMT
Organization: Multihouse, the Netherlands
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Hi,

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.

Johan
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