buffindexed expire slowing down...

[Dan Merillat]

expire begin Mon Jan  3 14:54:15 EST 2000: (-v1)
    Article lines processed  3742631
    Articles retained        2721589
    Entries expired          1021042
    Articles dropped               0
    Old entries dropped      1198717
    Old entries retained       98778
expire end Mon Jan  3 14:58:04 EST 2000
        all done Mon Jan  3 14:58:04 EST 2000
        expireover start Mon Jan  3 14:58:04 EST 2000
        expireover end Mon Jan  3 18:44:05 EST 2000
lowmarkrenumber begin Mon Jan  3 18:44:05 EST 2000: (/usr/lib/news/log/expire.lo
wmark)
lowmarkrenumber end Mon Jan  3 18:44:07 EST 2000

It seems to take longer each day... to the point I had to add more space so
that it could expire before the server filled the buffers.

All this on only 4.3 million overview records.

Of course, this is an early december CVS release... have there been
significant performance changes since then?  I'm rather hesitant to upgrade,
since there this is before the group-based expire change, and that would
require a history/overview rebuild... it's stable now.

--Dan