scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) (05/06/89)
A couple of questions:
Did news volume increase drastically the last couple of weeks?
I only ask this because I used to not have much problems leaving space
in my spool directory with a 3-day expiration, but now, with a one-day-
since-arrival expiration (a stop gap measure until I can change the size
of the spool partition), I run out of room almost daily! We do not
get talk or alt and this is a 45 Mb partition!
I have noticed a number of duplicates floating through here. I
thought that the news software was supposed to take care of that. We
do keep the database info here for sometime (21 days I think I specify
on expire), but I have noticed a number of back-to-back duplicates. Can
someone give me a clue as to how I can track down where the problem is?
Are there problems others know about?
If I reconfigure this disk, I can change the partition size to 60Mb and
still leave room for real work. Besides the short expiration times (which
I would rather have at 3 days), is there something else I can do?
Help!!!
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scott barman
{gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scottabrams@max.arpa (The Ancient Programmer) (05/08/89)
In article <667@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes: >A couple of questions: > > Did news volume increase drastically the last couple of weeks? > : > : > I have noticed a number of duplicates floating through here. I >thought that the news software was supposed to take care of that. We >do keep the database info here for sometime (21 days I think I specify >on expire), but I have noticed a number of back-to-back duplicates. Can >someone give me a clue as to how I can track down where the problem is? My spool disk filled too overflowing, and we found between 1-2000 duplicate articles, which had been posted as separate articles. For some reason, our News software was not able to identify these articles as duplicates even though they had identical IDs. I don't know when this problem began here. We are running at patchlevel 17, of News and we get our feed from two sources via nntp. > >Are there problems others know about? Ditto. Any clues gratefully accepted. INTERNET: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams