disk space requirements

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]:
>
>   On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Paul Reilly wrote:
>   
>   > With current news volumes, what would be the recommended amount of
>   > disk space for holding all the main 6 groups (comp.* sci.* etc) for
>   > a period of about 1 month on a server? 
>   
>   I'm not sure which six hierarchies you indicate; I find that I can
>   store about four days / gigabyte of the Big 8 (comp.*,
>   humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*),
>   appropriately spam/binary filtered.

I have allocated 8 GB for Big8, and it currently holds 54 days.
articles larger than 32 KiB are kept in a different metacycbuff,
though.  (alt.* is also 8 GB, which lasts for 41 days on my server.)


Kjetil T.