how does history file get too large?

[Russ Allbery]

Anne Wilson <anne at unidata.ucar.edu> writes:

> But, I'm not convinced of the benefit of having a huge history file.
> For one thing, innd does seem much faster with my new, relatively tiny
> history file.  (Although it's grown by almost a factor of 8 in about 24
> hours.)  And, speed is a significant concern for us.

Yes, the history file is one of the speed bottlenecks in INN, and the
smaller you can keep it, the faster things will run.

> My 'remember' value was (and still is) 10, and things have worked great
> for months.  I'm happy with remembering articles for 10 days generally -
> it's not that I want to remember them longer than that.

10 days is a little long these days if you have a high volume, I think.

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