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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 17 Oct 1996 09:42:47 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <545nm7$bd1@flash.noc.best.net>
References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <544bat$41o@twwells.com> <544nas$b5h@flash.noc.best.net> <5456rv$kbu@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
NNTP-Posting-Host: flash.noc.best.net
:In article <5456rv$kbu@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>,
:Ollivier Robert <Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
:> [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
:>
:>In article <544nas$b5h@flash.noc.best.net>,
:>Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote:
:>> news1:/home/news/spool/news/rec/arts/disney# ls -1 */ | wc
:>> 877 872 5235
:>>
:>>
:>> See? The .overview file is near the beginning of the directory.
:>> Ergo, it is likely to be cached since the article file was just written
:>> to the same directory.
:>
:>Don't tell me you're putting the .overview files in the same directory
:>structure as the articles ?
:>
:>From a reader's point of view, you should keep .overview in their own
:>partition or at least in a separate tree to avoid slow lookups for your
:>NNTP clients...
:>--
:>Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
:>FreeBSD FAQ: <URL:http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/>
Nonsense. Why does everyone seem to believe that, somehow, .overview
is more magical then some random article file? Scanning .overview once
per group is an order of magnitude less expensive then reading 10 articles
in the group. It's in the noise. My newsreader machine is happily wonking
away with 250 online nnrpd users with the .overview in the spool.
It is NOT a big deal people! There is nothing magical about .overview
files.
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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