Re: Old news is coming in fast.

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From: Kenneth Herron
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 16:51

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emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:

>    HELP!  My news partition is filling up fast.  Could it be due to all of
>   those Jan 30th articles that have suddenly started coming in?

>I would recommend strongly that the next C news patch have an
>(optional) means of discarding news that is too old.

We're running news on a 26-processor sequent.  This machine is generally
I/O bound; it's load average rarely gets above 0.8.  I would gladly trade
a bit of performance for improved old-article rejection, especially since
it would be "only" CPU time.

On the other hand, I'm keeping 38 days of message ID's, so I haven't seen
many old articles either.
-- 
Kenneth Herron                                            kherron@ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky                                        (606) 257-2975
Department of Mathematics 
                                "Never trust gimmicky gadgets" -- the Doctor

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