expire.ctl question with CNFS

[Heath Kehoe]

>
>My expire is now taking 6 hours a night...
>
>	expire begin Mon Jan  8 03:02:37 PST 2001:
>	    Article lines processed 11379875
>	    Articles retained       11365881
>	    Entries expired            13994
>	    Articles dropped               0
>	    Old entries dropped            1
>	    Old entries retained     2230950
>	expire end Mon Jan  8 03:07:35 PST 2001
>		all done Mon Jan  8 03:07:35 PST 2001
>		expireover start Mon Jan  8 03:07:39 PST 2001
>		expireover end Mon Jan  8 08:59:33 PST 2001
>	lowmarkrenumber begin Mon Jan  8 08:59:33 PST 2001:
>	lowmarkrenumber end Mon Jan  8 08:59:33 PST 2001
>
>I'm using CNFS and my expire.ctl looks like this:
>
>	/remember/:30
>	1:60:60:60
>
>I was under the impression that CNFS lightened the load on expire
>since the store was self-expiring.  Should I remove the 1:60:60:60
>line, or change it to 1:never:never:never, and would that make my
>nightly expire run go faster?
>
>I've using ovdb, will expireover continue to function okay if I
>change this?
>


The part that's taking 6 hours is the overview expire.  The
expire.ctl won't make a difference.  With 11 million articles,
a 6-hour expireover is to be expected.  The other overview
methods will probably have similar expireover run-times.

-heath