slow expire with buffindexed

[Simon Lyall]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Igor Timkin wrote:
> Simon Lyall writes:
> > Currently I have 10867473 lines in history, 12605786 overview data stored
> 
> It's normal. Overview records == history articles * crosspost_ratio.

Phew, I was a little worried there.
 
> > however the overview expire is taking at least 12 hours or more. Watching
> 
> How match disk spindels you have ? For 3 overview disks and 7,000,000+
> overview records overview expire run ~4.5 hours.

I current have all of ~/news on a 8*75GB/raid5 external Raid, so that
might be main cause of the problem. I should be able to nick a 20GB
Raid to take off some of the load and perhaps another 12GB as well, I'll
give this a try tomorrow and see how much it helps.

Going to RAID0 would be good as well, but I've lost too many disks to risk
it. 

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