history.* and number od articles

[Russ Allbery]

Przemyslaw Maciuszko <sal at tpi.pl> writes:

> Are those sizes correct for the database with about 4.6mln articles ?

> -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     677114365 Aug  4 19:44 history
> -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news         108 Aug  4 19:44 history.dir
> -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     114267186 Aug  4 19:44 history.hash
> -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     228534372 Aug  4 19:44 history.index

Looks fairly reasonable to me.

> Because like one friend told me under Typhoon she has about ~200MB
> history with ~9mln articles.  Is there something to worry about ?

Typhoon has a more efficient history storage format.  So will INN (by
about a factor of three) as soon as I get a chance to do a history
rewrite.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>