expire running dead slow

[Russ Allbery]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

> I have a machine, 1 of 6, running INN 2.4.1 on an Intel platform. CNFS
> storage, about 8TB, dual 2.8GHz HT Xeons, 2.5GB memory. Redhat
> Enterprise AS3.0.

> This is one of our small regional servers. For some reason, expire on
> this machine takes forever to do expire every few days, anywhere from
> 35-50 hours. At other times it runs only 1-2 hours. We have about 22M
> articles in history, INN is built largefile enabled, obviously.

Whenever expire has suddenly become extremely slow to me, I've always
ended tracking it down to thrashing swap.  I don't know why you'd have
that problem on this system and not on others, though.

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