buffindexed question

[Kevin McKinnon]

> Right now I am running news.daily with expireover and it seems to be 
> choking the server for about 2 hours every night. I see a 
> correspondence in dropped articles during that time. Any tips on how 
> to avoid this?

Hi Jon,

When was the last time you rebuilt your history file from scratch?

On my server, we were dropping from an average of ~15Mbps incoming 
down below 5 during expiry (between 1-2 hours).  I shut the server 
down, nuked the history files, rebuilt them from scratch, and have 
had much better overnight performance since (last night we dropped to 
12Mbps during news.daily)  I have a 150GB spool, and right now 
history is running about 525MB.

Cheers,
Kev

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Kevin McKinnon, Sr. News Administrator              news at sunshinecable.com
Sunshine Communications Cable Internet       http://news.sunshinecable.com
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