how does history file get too large?

[Anne Wilson]

Mark Hittinger wrote:
> 
> Well dealing with control.* should help quite a bit but you may need to
> investigate going to "large file" support inn.  Double check your OS to
> make sure it can do it.
> 

It can, but I'm not convinced it's the best way to go (please see my response to Bill).

> 
> Keep in mind that a large history file will slow down incoming article
> speed.  The history cache size can help mitigate this.
> 

Yeah - it certainly seems faster now after rebuilding it yesterday.  

I forgot about hiscachesize - thanks for the reminder.  Although, I must've looked at it at some point because I set it to 256 some time ago. Maybe when the history file is larger I'll experiment with increasing this...

Thanks Bill and Mark for the help and support!

Anne
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