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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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I was having the same problem with expire taking over 18 hours to complete.

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.

Joe