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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!not-for-mail From: kls@MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Karl L. Swartz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.admin.technical,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Expire strategy (Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.) Date: 9 Apr 1996 11:43:01 -0400 Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lines: 20 Sender: zorch@ftp.UU.NET Approved: zorch@uunet.UU.NET Distribution: world Message-ID: <DpHIE8.2H3@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> References: <311F8C62.4BC4@pluto.njcc.com> <4go23v$8hp@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16793 news.admin.technical:1389 news.software.nntp:21393 In article <m0u08NS-000019C@sapa.inka.de>, Olaf Titz <olaf@inka.de> wrote: >Karl L. Swartz <kls@MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: >> >Once the filesystem has been filled, the oldest articles are >> >automatically overwritten as new messages are added to the spool. >> Nice idea, but it doesn't address varying expiration times, not to mention >> seasonally varying loads. >It does address varying loads - exactly the amount of space that is needed >gets freed. I really like that idea (s.b.) That's nice, but I want to keep comp.unix for 21 days while chucking comp.os.ms-windows after 2 days. Your scheme doesn't appear to provide any way of doing that, which is what I was talking about. -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu SLAC Computing Services | or kls@chicago.com 1-415/926-3630 |UUCP uunet!lll-winken!unixhub!kls -or- ditka!kls (SLAC and the US Dept. of Energy don't necessarily agree with my opinions.)