Overview Buffers just keep on growing...

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Donald Roeber wrote:

> Yes, I'm passing 'expireover' to news.daily.  However, there may be a 
> problem with it... This is from the tail end of my news.daily report:
>
> buffindexed.c:1601 Can't malloc 233234432 bytes: Not enough space

...yes, that would be a problem.

This week seems to have "news.daily has too much information for people 
to deal with" issues everywhere I look.


> Since the bulk of our articles are in CNFS buffers, I expect it'll be 
> fairly stable.  

I was mostly asking whether they'd filled up yet.


> However, we do have a few local groups using a tradspool, so it's really
> up to expire.ctl to keep that spool under control.

I don't think that's your problem.  I think a fair number of people keep 
their local hierarchies on infinite retention without much problem.  
(Although Russ switched from tradspool to timehash for the largest group, 
as I recall, to avoid too many files in one directory.)


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org