[news.software.b] Expire: dbm store exhausted

john@abccam.abcl.co.uk (John Grogan) (02/02/90)

We've been running news for a week or two now, and curently have about
40Mb of spooled items on disc (and we're not even recieving rec!).
Problem is, expire has ceased to work, it bombs out with a 'dbm store
exhausted' error message when I run it.  Since dbm databases are
supposed to be capable of growing to be a billion blocks, I assume
that this message is really caused by the fact that a key/value pairs
are supposed to be no more than a block, or that all entries which
hash together must be no more than a block.  Is there a compilation
parameter I should change to cure this?

Thanks,
John Grogan.

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