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In article <1gli95INNid5@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> JIM@brownvm.brown.edu (James Mathiesen) writes:

>While we were working on finding this problem, we also noticed
>that the default tag mask used by dbz.c is inappropriate for sites
>with a history file larger than 16 meg.  The patches to
>expire.c and makehistory.c provide an alternate mask of 0x78000000
>that will be used for points up to 134meg in the history file.

Just a thought.  How large does a file have to get before indirect and
double-indirect blocks have to be updated?  I would imagine that
appending history entries one at a time is going to become a bottleneck
without a PrestoServe Board.  I know this would add a lot of state, but
has Rich considered adding code to INN to group history appends, but
not ACK'ing the NNTP feeds until the multi-append is complete?

I guess this might not be an issue and might actually slow down some
sites.  However, a site that is receiving zillions of new articles a
minute might find this a big win.  Of course, if they're getting
zillions of new articles a minute they can afford a PrestoServe board!

Tom
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