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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 1997 04:59:45 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd as a news server?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970310045911.4273Q-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970309230624.6880D-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Joe McGuckin wrote:
> 
> > I was having the same problem with expire taking over 18 hours to complete.
> 
>   Ok.  For the *entire* expiration process, right?
> 
> > Someone suggested forcing expire to rebuild the history database using a 
> > different spindle for temp space.
> > 
> > That fixed it. Now the history rebuild finishes in under 5 minutes.
> 
>   Errr... but the history rebuild is always the easiest and fastest part
> of the expiration process.  The fastrm and expireover is the time
> consuming part.
>
	This is, of course, assuming that Joe is using the 'delayrm' option,
which it sounds like he isn't/wasn't, if expire was running 18hrs...




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