Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File
Chris Szurgot (szurgot@itribe.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:42:41 -0400
In article <1.5.4.32.19960418193839.0067d620@shoga.wwa.com>, you wrote:
>>In theory, as news accumulates and expires the NEWS.DAT file should stablize
>>in size, resulting in a consistently sized news database. For some systems,
>>this results in a smooth flowing database, where the news.dat file stabalizes
>>to the largest size it needs to be, holding empty space from an expire until
>>the next import. (Mine works like this, I assume Chin's, and most systems
>>where people have space and whatnot ;-) ) However, as seen from the current
>>threads, many people don't like this because it makes it diffucult to reclaim
>>free space in a crunch.
>
>FWIW, I am running Yarn95 (Ver. 0.90), and my \Yarn directory is on my D
>drive. I have not seen my news.dat file become very large. I import
>newsgroup articles every day. However, I do run "expire -r" at least every
>other day, once I have saved anything to disk (in folders). Currently, my
>news.dat file is about 15KB, and I have ~31 MB free on the D drive. Does
>this all make a difference?
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