disk space requirements

Alex Kiernan alexk at demon.net
Wed Nov 20 12:29:03 UTC 2002


Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie> writes:

> 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? We're using CNFS buffers, and
> have 120 GB of disk space, but this is still too small. Articles are
> expiring too quickly - approx 10 days. (binaries split out in to small
> buffer).
> 

We have 80GB for non-binaries - its about 75 days worth, but we're
filtering misplaced binaries and storing all binary groups separately
(regardless of hierachy).

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc


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