Re: Expire problems

From: Markus Quandt (markus.quandt@uni-koeln.de)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 23:14:37 GMT+1

** Reply to note from yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no Mon, 15
Dec 1997 02:09:50 +0100 (MET)

Hi all,

sorry to jump in here with a slightly different topic, but it
seems to fit in.

Question: When I run rmgroup, does this work like expire, i.e.
it is only freeing space WITHIN news.dat and not shrinking its
size? I lately did this and faintly remember having seen the
next scheduled expire delete the articles from the removed
group, but the news.dat didn't shrink too much (as I would
have expected it to do).

All in all, isn't there a point when you HAVE to run rebuild
-s on news.dat because the proportion of small chunks of free
space that will only very unlikely ever be overwritten/reused
will rise continuously? Like fragmentation on FAT drives?

Thanks, MQ

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