Re: expire oink

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From: Drew Sullivan
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1990 16:57

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In article <1990Aug21.154310.20719@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Aug19.202420.140@m2xenix.psg.com> news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) writes:
>>C News has been running quite happily here for some months.  Unfortunately,
>>with a 21 day window (which still does not get all the trash), expire is quite
>>the hog, 11MB and four hours (while, for comparison, a full pathalias build
>>takes 30 minutes).
>
>That's awfully slow for a dbz expire.  Ours typically takes 30 minutes to
>do 28 days' worth (and I am unhappy with this and intend to improve it).
>I have no very specific suggestions, though; insufficient data.

My 386 runing Xenix take about 10 minutes to do a 22 day expire.
This seem reasonable to me.
-- 
  -- Drew Sullivan, <drew@lethe.uucp>

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From: drew@lethe.uucp (Drew Sullivan)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire oink
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.165739.6918@lethe.uucp>
Date: 22 Aug 90 16:57:39 GMT
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