bugs in expire? corrupt history?

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

>   this is solaris 7, SPARC, 64 bit kernel, compiled with largefiles
>   support, tagged-hash history.

Tagged hash is restricted to 32-bits.  I guess the reasoning is that
if you can afford that large a history, you can afford the RAM to
cater for it without tagged-hash :-)

>   i went to tagged hash last week, after the server started going
>   into swap-thrash hell during expire. the box has 384M ram.  being
>   an ultra 5, i can only add another 128M, unfortunately, so that
>   would be too tiny a bandaid to make a significant difference...

Upgrade to an Ultra 10?  Or reduce remember somewhat, or perhaps
reduce retention times on articles (== allocate larger proportion of
disk space to binaries).


Kjetil T.