History File over 2GB

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> I suspect there's something else going on here, because it has all of
> the delay at once and then sends all of the data, which doesn't match my
> mental model of what should happen (send response header, and then send
> multiline response one article at a time as they are discovered).  But
> there's definitely a potential downside to checkart as things stand now.

There's something really weird with at least LISTGROUP; I just tried it on
a newsgroup stored in timehash that has over 90,000 articles, and around
81,000 it started getting *really* slow and peaked at 40MB of memory used.

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