General Questions

[Bill Davidsen]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:

>On Tue, 9 May 2006, Michael Krysiak wrote:
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>>When using the tradspool storage method, what is the largest number used 
>>for the article file names?  What happens once this is reached, does it 
>>cycle back to the first unused article number (assuming articles were 
>>previously removed)?
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>The limit in the latest draft of the NNTP specification is 4,294,967,295.
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I suspect everyone will have gone to 64 bits before we hit that number ;-)

>I don't know what INN actually does when the limit is reached, but it's 
>not going to be pretty because newsreaders probably aren't designed to 
>deal with it.  On the other hand, it's pretty hard to get up to that 
>value, so unless you've got an unusual case, you probably don't need to 
>worry about it.
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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979