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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 22 Oct 1996 13:06:39 +0300 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54i6bf$kic@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <544nas$b5h@flash.noc.best.net> <5456rv$kbu@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> <545nm7$bd1@flash.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi NNTP-Posting-User: mickey Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote: > Nonsense. Why does everyone seem to believe that, somehow, .overview > is more magical then some random article file? Scanning .overview once > per group is an order of magnitude less expensive then reading 10 articles > in the group. It's in the noise. My newsreader machine is happily wonking > away with 250 online nnrpd users with the .overview in the spool. > > It is NOT a big deal people! There is nothing magical about .overview > files. > > -Matt > yes, and there's prove to that too i think... i run news server on my machine, it's small, in some relative way... one group i am not expiring ever has about 12 megs .overview since there's some 47 thousand something articles beginning from dec 95, and i havent noticed that it'd be slow in any way... the group itself eats some 150 megs. not that i'm sure that it proves anything... =) mickey