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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