Overview space needs?

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

>
> > >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?

the longer the article's been around, the more likely it will be referenced 
by other articles, therefore a larger volume of overview data would 
accumulate for that given article.

1.6 million articles that have lingered on a newsserver for six weeks would 
accumulate more references than 1.6 articles that have been on the 
newsserver for six days.

but yeah, i could be thinking in 'fuzzy logic' at the moment. too many 
shrimp on my plate right now!


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