Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!jax!krenaut
From: krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com (Karl Renaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: news 'history' file is HUGE
Date: 12 Mar 1996 11:35:34 GMT
Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc.
Lines: 39
Message-ID: <4i3ni6$qsu@jaxnet.jaxnet.com>
References: <4i34od$ctl@pegasus.starlink.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: jax.jaxnet.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Check the man pages for news-recovery(8) the instructions for rebuilding
your history file are there.
Also, you will probably want to modify the "remember" line of your
expire.ctl file. The default value is 14, which for a full news feed
will allow your history file to grow to about 200 meg legitamately. Lower
it to 7 and the history file should drop to 100 meg.
As far as expire running 20 hours, you probably need more memory, I have
128megs of ram on my news server and it could still use more memory. Also,
change the time of day the the standard BSDI daily script runs so that it
runs around 5pm... the goal here is to avoid expire and the daily scripts
from running at the same time.
alschnei@starlink.com wrote:
: I've been running the BSDI version of news very succesfully for a few
: months. Last weekend, I noticed the 'history' file was over 200MB.
: Also, it took 'expire' about 20 hours to run. We carry a FULL
: newsfeed from 2 sources.
: How can I build a new and reliable history file? I tried 'newhist'
: but it would not restart the server when finished and made no
: difference.
: Am I running 'newhist' incorrectly? What are the steps for rebuilding
: all 3 history files?
: TIA
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Karl Renaut Voice: 904-350-1969
Southeast Network Services Data: 904-292-4567
P.O. Box 56946 email: krenaut@southeast.net
Jacksonville, FL 32241 http://jax.jaxnet.com
Making Internet Affordable / - \
----------------------------------------m| o o |m----------------
U