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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.igcom.net!terra.igcom.net!david From: david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: What is the size of the newsfeed these days anyway? Date: 5 Aug 1996 21:40:31 GMT Organization: InterGlobal Communications Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4u5pof$684@moon.igcom.net> References: <3200DEEA.7FFA@waveinter.com> <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805094524.17110C-100000@picard.chickasaw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: terra.igcom.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Shawn McMahon (smcmahon@chickasaw.com) wrote: : On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, public wrote: : > I am a complete neophite with INN and news administration in general. I : > had uunet start a NNTP feed about 24 hours ago. This was supposed to be : > a partial feed of about 6000 groups (compared to around 16,000 groups in : > the active file I got from uunet). As of now I am VERY close to filling : > up the 1.2 gig drive I have mounted at /var/news. Does this sound : > right? I was under the impression that a FULL news feed was around a : > gig a day... : Depends upon your definition of "full". : If you're carrying the alt.binaries.pictures.* groups, you can fill a : drive very quickly. : If you're carrying alt.binaries.warez.*, a full feed is around 2 gigs a : day. : Without those, it should be more like 650-700 megs; at least in my : recent experience. : You also need to remember that if you expire news once a day, it can get : up to DOUBLE a day's feed before you be begin expiration. : A 1.2 gig drive is not adequate for a full feed, even without the warez : groups, and even if you only keep articles for one day. : BTW, if you're expiring news once per day, a useful trick is to reduce : all your expire times by .1. For example, if you want to keep a group : for one day, set it instead for .9 days. That way, an article that is : 23 hours 59 minutes old doesn't stick around for 2 days. This is mostly correct. What wasnt mentioned here is the business aspect. If you expire articles everyday, your newsfeed will be considered poor at best. Most successfuly ISP's keep regular articles at least 10-14 days, and expire binaries every 7-days, and expire sex-binaries/warez,etc....(high volume binaries) every 1-2 days. With 1.2 megs, I woudnt carry any binary groups at all. DB