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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!picard.chickasaw.com!picard.chickasaw.com!smcmahon From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@chickasaw.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: What is the size of the newsfeed these days anyway? Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:49:49 -0500 Organization: Chickasaw Nation Net Lines: 37 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805094524.17110C-100000@picard.chickasaw.com> References: <3200DEEA.7FFA@waveinter.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: picard.chickasaw.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: public <public@waveinter.com> In-Reply-To: <3200DEEA.7FFA@waveinter.com> On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, public wrote: > I am a complete neophite with INN and news administration in general. I > had uunet start a NNTP feed about 24 hours ago. This was supposed to be > a partial feed of about 6000 groups (compared to around 16,000 groups in > the active file I got from uunet). As of now I am VERY close to filling > up the 1.2 gig drive I have mounted at /var/news. Does this sound > right? I was under the impression that a FULL news feed was around a > gig a day... Depends upon your definition of "full". If you're carrying the alt.binaries.pictures.* groups, you can fill a drive very quickly. If you're carrying alt.binaries.warez.*, a full feed is around 2 gigs a day. Without those, it should be more like 650-700 megs; at least in my recent experience. You also need to remember that if you expire news once a day, it can get up to DOUBLE a day's feed before you be begin expiration. A 1.2 gig drive is not adequate for a full feed, even without the warez groups, and even if you only keep articles for one day. BTW, if you're expiring news once per day, a useful trick is to reduce all your expire times by .1. For example, if you want to keep a group for one day, set it instead for .9 days. That way, an article that is 23 hours 59 minutes old doesn't stick around for 2 days. Shawn McMahon | Smokesignals Computer Company Senior System Operator | Southern Oklahoma's Internet Service Provider Chickasaw Nation Net | 405 332-0033 http://www.chickasaw.com