More on overview estimation - what if I already got it wrong ?

John Kozubik john_kozubik at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 10 06:04:35 UTC 2000


I have been following with interest the discussion on estimating overview 
size, etc.

I have 84 gigs of spool space, and I have a 2 gig /var partition and a 1.8 
gig /usr partition.

Therefore overview can only get as big as 2 gigs.  I notice /usr growing 
more slowly than /var, so I won't worry about that, since /var will fill 
first.

Anyway, the server has been running for about 4 days now, and /var is now 
60% full.  I expect it to drop 10% after news.daily runs each night, but 
even so, I will run out of /var very soon.

Further, I am using cnfs, so expire.ctl does nothing for me, since cnfs is 
self-expiring.

I wonder:

1. How do I keep myself from running out of /var space ? (aside from making 
/var bigger - that is the easy answer)

2. what will happen when I run out of room in overview?  does something 
intelligent happen, like news starts to epire stuff out of cnfs in order to 
make room in overview, or does it all just go to hell?

3. Is there a way I can tell news to put a cap on overview size, and have it 
only go that high? (I realize this will mean that I will NOT utilize my full 
84 gigs of spool, and will thus be wasting disk space, but it would be a 
good short-term solution...)

I would like to avoid reloading and repartitioning...

-john
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