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From: gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Jim Gerland - Manager, User Support Services)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: Re: Why are 33 blocks allocated for an .ITM file?
Message-ID: <209.25ebb627@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 16:29:43 GMT
References: <3.25e3a98b@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> <22350.25e55442@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: Academic Computing Services, University at Buffalo
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In article <22350.25e55442@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
> In article <3.25e3a98b@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>, newsmgr@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
>  (Jim Gerland - Manager, User Support Services) writes:
>> Can someone tell me why NEWS allocates 33 blocks for almost all of the
>> ITM files even if they are only 2 blocks (2/33)?  This is not consistant.
>> 
>> If this is not necessary, can someone tell me how to change this?
> 
> Hmmm.  I am running V5.9C and I can't seem to find an 2/33 block .ITM
> files.  What version are you running?  I know that the .BATCH files
> created by the NNTP server (WIN) are created 33 blocks long. Is that
> what you are talking about?  Other than that, I would tend to suspect
> some of the device/RMS settings at your site. I don't suppose the
> device as a cluster factor of 33?  Or perhaps some of the system
> default RMS allocation quantity stuff is causing this?  Other than
> that, I would look for fopen() calls in the source and see if any are
> specifying the optional RMS parameters.

Well here is the output of a dir/siz=all [.comp.os.vms] and you can see that
some of the .itm files are /33 and some aren't. 

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Directory DISK$ACSDISK4:[ANUNEWS.NEWSMGR.COMP.OS.VMS]

10.ITM;1                      4/33      28-FEB-1990 11:06:20.40  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  
11.ITM;1                      2/33      27-FEB-1990 20:50:40.37  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  
12.ITM;1                      4/33      27-FEB-1990 20:50:53.18  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  
13.ITM;1                      9/33      28-FEB-1990 11:03:00.06  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  
25.ITM;1                      2/3       28-FEB-1990 11:10:28.98  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  
7.ITM;1                       3/33      27-FEB-1990 20:49:17.49  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  
9.ITM;1                       5/33      28-FEB-1990 11:03:02.52  [ACS,NEWSMGR]  

Total of 7 files, 29/201 blocks.

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Jim...