CNFS tools

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie> writes:
> 
> > Are there any CNFS tools out there that can show what articles are in
> > what buffers? I seem to recall something like this being mentioned on
> > the list before, but I can find no reference to it on the website, or on
> > the archives. Are there any CNFS tools out there, that give more info
> > about whats actually in each buffer?
> 
> contrib/showtoken on the storage API token may be helpful there.

I can imagine something that goes the opposite direction, though.  Walks 
the buffer and accumulates statistics, or something.  Would the framework 
be hard to write?  The actual analysis aspects could be added over time (a 
flag to list all of the Message-IDs, a flag to calculate average article 
size, a flag to cumulate some analysis by Newsgroups, etc).  Or maybe it 
would be better to write something to list the Message-IDs (or storage 
tokens, which is easier), and then let the analysis tool use the storage 
API?

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org