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From: stehman@jade.southwind.net (Jeff Stehman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: news 'history' file is HUGE
Date: 14 Mar 1996 11:20:51 GMT
Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
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alschnei@starlink.com wrote:
: I've been running the BSDI version of news very succesfully for a few
: months.  Last weekend, I noticed the 'history' file was over 200MB.
: Also, it took 'expire' about 20 hours to run.  We carry a FULL
: newsfeed from 2 sources.   

: How can I build a new and reliable history file?  I tried 'newhist'
: but it would not restart the server when finished and made no
: difference.

: Am I running 'newhist' incorrectly?  What are the steps for rebuilding
: all 3 history files?


I just cleared the same problem by throttling the server and running
'makehistory -bo'.  Before hand I had pruned the spool by hand down to
about 1.5 GB.  Took several hours to run, but when it was done I had
a 46 MB history file.  Things are running *much* faster now.  I was
expecting to see some repeat articles due to my pruning, but haven't
noticed any yet.  14 days from now I expect my history file to be back
up to its usual 110 MB.

My questions is why wouldn't 'makehistory -bou' work?  Gave me a usage
error.  The 'u' is only there to throttle the server, isn't it?  -bu
works fine.

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Jeff Stehman                     Senior Systems Administrator
stehman@southwind.net            SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
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