the "i just hate those questions" questions

Katsuhiro Kondou kondou at nec.co.jp
Wed Aug 4 22:23:37 UTC 1999


In article <4.2.0.58.19990804142304.009733c0 at pop3.callatg.com>,
	Paul Theodoropoulos <paul at atgi.net> wrote;

} Can anyone provide any sort of rough estimates for how much space to 
} allocate for newslib/hist db and NOV? I'm thinking of a combined 20G for 
} newslib/history/NOV as a single partition, which seems like an awful lot, 
} but...well, one hates to be locked into a poor storage allocation model, 
} know what i mean?

Here is the configuratoin of my testing server(SS20+256MB)
and some data.  Hope this helps.

cycbuff.conf:

cycbuff:ONE:/Nspool1/cycbuffs/one:1774200
cycbuff:TWO:/Nspool2/cycbuffs/two:1692252
cycbuff:THREE:/Nspool2/cycbuffs/three:1692252
cycbuff:FOUR:/Nspool1/cycbuffs/four:1774200
cycbuff:FIVE:/Nspool2/cycbuffs/five:1692252
cycbuff:SIX:/Nspool2/cycbuffs/six:1692252
metacycbuff:BigArtBuf:ONE,TWO
metacycbuff:SmallArtBuf:THREE,FOUR
metacycbuff:NormalArtBuf:FIVE,SIX

storage.conf:

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: *, at fj.*, at iij.*, at japan.*, at jp.*, at kanto.*, at okinawa.*, at tohoku.*, at tsukuba.*, at tnn.*
  class: 1
  size: 65536,0
  options: BigArtBuf
}

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: *, at fj.*, at iij.*, at japan.*, at jp.*, at kanto.*, at okinawa.*, at tohoku.*, at tsukuba.*, at tnn.*
  class: 2
  size: 0,65536
  options: SmallArtBuf
}

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: @japan.binaries.*,fj.*,iij.*,japan.*,jp.*,kanto.*,okinawa.*,tohoku.*,tsukuba.*,tnn.*
  class: 3
  size: 0,0
  options: NormalArtBuf
}

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: japan.binaries.*
  class: 1
  size: 65536,0
  options: BigArtBuf
}

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: japan.binaries.*
  class: 2
  size: 0,65536
  options: SmallArtBuf
}

buffindexed.conf:

0:/Nspool1/overview/OV1:1536000
1:/Nspool1/overview/OV2:1536000

# ls -l history*
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     127528413 Aug  5 07:19 history
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news          65 Aug  5 07:19 history.dir
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     22467456 Aug  5 07:19 history.hash
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     14978304 Aug  5 07:19 history.index
# cat history.dir
dbz 6 2533222 10 66
1674707 1688815 1069211 331220 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
# inndf -o
22 % overview space used
# cat ../etc/expire.ctl
/remember/:0
#

-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou


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