Excessive expireover time?

[Katsuhiro Kondou]

In article <yl4s5k4jlz.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
	Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote;

} > The spool is cnfs, and I don't have "groupbasedexpire" in the inn.conf
} > file (docs say groupbasedexpire defaults to true).
} 
} Hm.  In that case, I'm inclined to suspect either swapping or something
} odd going on with your buffindexed buffers, but I'm not really qualified
} to debug the latter (having not used buffindexed myself yet).

This may happen.

Here is the result of mine which is one of our upcoming new servers
in production.  This is also cnfs and 'groupbasedexpire: false'.

Expire messages:
expire begin Fri Jul 21 02:36:30 JST 2000: (-v1 -z/var/news/log/expire.rm)
    Article lines processed  3350210
    Articles retained        2692840
    Entries expired           657370
    Articles dropped               0
    Old entries dropped       683785
    Old entries retained          72
expire end Fri Jul 21 02:39:20 JST 2000
        all done Fri Jul 21 02:39:20 JST 2000
        expireover start Fri Jul 21 02:39:20 JST 2000
        expireover end Fri Jul 21 04:20:34 JST 2000
lowmarkrenumber begin Fri Jul 21 04:20:34 JST 2000: (/var/news/log/expire.lowmark)
lowmarkrenumber end Fri Jul 21 04:20:38 JST 2000

# inndf -o
3 % overview space used
# inndf -n
3248936 overview data stored

Result of sar;
02:20:00      10       9      28      53
02:40:00      40       9      20      31
03:00:01      11      10      79       0
03:20:00      16      14      71       0
03:40:00      11      12      77       0
04:00:00      11      12      77       0
04:20:01      10      11      79       0
04:40:00       8       7      30      55

The box is Solaris2.6 on Netra t1405(1CPU, 1GBmem, 180GB(RAID-7)).
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Katsuhiro Kondou