[news.software.b] C-News: huge history.pag-file

oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) (02/04/91)

Hi!
I've been running C-News for about a week, and no I've got the first big
problem (not quite unusual):
Look at my history-files in /usr/lib/news:
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news      205068 Feb  4 04:40 history
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news          63 Feb  4 04:40 history.dir
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     17281588 Feb  4 04:40 history.pag
and see how many articles I have:
   3183  10584 205068 /usr/lib/news/history
And my history.pag file is about 17MB large.
Due to this size (I think), expire and relaynews take _hours_, I just
cancelled expire that's been running for 3 hours.
I used the dbz-package from C-News and even mkhistory builds a file same
size. What could be wrong with it? Is there any option I ignored when
building the doit.* files? Should I've had to answer 'no' to the question
about the available disk-space? Should I use another dbm (but my feed's
using dbz, and he doesn't have similar problems)???
Many questions, and I hope, somebody will be able to help me....

Please answer by mail (if possible), I don't know, whether I'll be able to
get all the news, especially not with this performance (sometimes (!),
relaynews is processing a message every two minutes !!!)

Thanx, oli
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oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) (02/05/91)

In <1991Feb4.150109.4095@odbffm.incom.de> oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) writes:

>Hi!
>I've been running C-News for about a week, and no I've got the first big
>problem (not quite unusual):
>Look at my history-files in /usr/lib/news:
>-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news      205068 Feb  4 04:40 history
>-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news          63 Feb  4 04:40 history.dir
>-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     17281588 Feb  4 04:40 history.pag
>and see how many articles I have:
>   3183  10584 205068 /usr/lib/news/history
>And my history.pag file is about 17MB large.

Oops, I'm awfully sorry... Some people pointed out to me that I was
supposed to compile dbz w/o the -O option, and this hint was included in
the  notebook/problems....
I must have overlooked this hint, but I did check the problems-file first.
Oh well, the next time I'll be more caucious. By the way, it worked...
Thanks to all who responded to my article, anyway. 
Bye, oli

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