News.daily takes 8 hours

Christoph Biedl cbiedl at gmx.de
Thu Mar 10 13:22:14 UTC 2005


Bernt Hansson wrote...

> What suggestions may you have if news.daily takes around 8 hours to 
> complete?

Every day or just this one? Did your server die yesterday and it's a
2.3.x? What's your hardware? How many groups does the server carry?

> expire begin Thu Mar 10 04:41:29 CET 2005:
> (-v1 -z/var/log/news/expire.rm)
>      Article lines processed   469837
>      Articles retained         169322
>      Entries expired           300515
>      Articles dropped               0
>      Old entries dropped            0
>      Old entries retained      767437
> expire end Thu Mar 10 12:30:33 CET 2005

Almost eight hours for 500k line is a nightmare. This should take a few
minutes only. Is there something in the log files? Tons of messages
logged would explain that slow speed.

>      all done Thu Mar 10 12:30:33 CET 2005
>      expireover start Thu Mar 10 12:30:38 CET 2005
>      expireover end Thu Mar 10 12:44:55 CET 2005

On the other hand this is quite fast unless you have just a few groups.

> Rebuild history & overview?

I don't think this would help.

    Christoph



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