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From: taob@zip.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.
Date: 17 Feb 1996 18:45:09 -0500
Organization: Internex Online Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Message-ID: <4g5pa5$oii@zip.io.org>
References: <311F8C62.4BC4@pluto.njcc.com> <DMu8B6.6Jn@twwells.com>
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In article <DMu8B6.6Jn@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote:
>
>Alas, I've done just that -- my junk directory is a quarter
>megabyte and I file a fair amount under it. Time to shrink that
>directory and keep it small....
You mean "a quarter _gigabyte_"? 250K for a junk directory is
negligible. I've got a 22000-group active file, yet I still
accumulate 200 or 300 junk articles a day, adding up to just over a
megabyte.
>Now, I have a question for the FreeBSD gurus out there -- I set
>the fragment size to 512 bytes in order to cut down on disk space
>waste. I have this sinking feeling that this also ups my directory
>read time. What do you think?
I didn't bother with that here. The alt.binaries spindle is
really the only one that chews up a lot of disk space, and I have
absolutely no problem trimming its expiry time back. The other major
top-level hierarchies have 1GB of spool each. With a 14-day expire, I
doubt any of them will get above 50% in the near future (well, maybe
rec.*).
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"