Overview space needs?

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:

> At 04:22 PM 8/23/99 , George Lindholm wrote:
> >Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:
> >
> > >In article <37C17E10.A434ED28 at ubc.ca>,
> >         George Lindholm <George.Lindholm at ubc.ca> wrote;
> >
> > >} I was wondering what article/overview ratio people are seeing
> > >} with 2.3 (both traditional and buffindex)?
> >
> > >As I wrote before, it's about 800MB for 1.5M arts.  This is
> > >buffindexed, but I don't think it's so different for
> > >tradindexed.
> >
> >Hmm, I'm seeing 2.6Gb (and growing) for 1.6M articles.
> 
> isn't that a function of retention/expiration policies? e.g. if 1.6M 
> articles constitutes a months worth of retained articles on server X, it'll 
> require more overview data than if 1.6M articles constitute one weeks worth 
> of retained articles?

You lost me on the logic of this one...why would 1.6M articles that are
one month old require more disk space for overview then that same 1.6M
articles that are only 1 week old?

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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