[=] dmeade@netcom.com (David Meade) wrote the following:
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# run a - 0.91 22,000 53,000,000 11,500,000
# run b - 0.91 9,500 27,800,000 5,500,000
This may very well be a bug. However, you were aware, were you not,
that .9x does not reclaim space on the drive unless the expired
articles occur at the end of the newsbase? In this case, it looks
like maybe 11.5MB and 5.5MB, respectively, were expired at the end of
the newsbase, resulting in truncation of the base, while the rest of
the expired articles occured elsewhere in the newsbase, resulting in
them being used on the next import.
If this is the case, then it's not a bug, it's the way Chin is
handling the newsbase from .9x up (I presume he won't be going back to
the old way -- just as well, because I prefer it this way).
-- Michael Jones (mtj@iglou.com, aham@pulsar.cs.wku.edu) "Enlightenment is the dissipation of superstitions." --Anatol Rapoport