dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) (01/25/88)
mnetor's feed from uunet was stuck for a long time, and this
meant all the Toronto news was coming from clyde!watmath!water!utgpu.
This route (presumably clyde) is not as good, and we seemed to
be missing a lot of stuff (we'd see followups to as-yet-unreceived
articles all the time. Now with the mnetor problem solved, all
those two-week-old never-received articles have appeared. Look
at the Date: fields on your articles and you'll see what I mean.
There's even the occasional repeat article, posted so long ago
all record of it has vanished from history.
There's a possibility that a couple of other corporations may
be able to start assisting in bringing news into Toronto in
the not-too-distant future, directly from U.S. sites. We're
working on it.
David Sherman
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{ uunet!mnetor pyramid!utai decvax!utcsri ihnp4!utzoo } !lsuc!davemason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) (01/25/88)
Here's a list of recent news arrivals here (in paren is what's unexpired): News received on Jan 23 4383 k bytes News received on Jan 22 5446 ( 5443) k bytes News received on Jan 21 4861 ( 4292) k bytes News received on Jan 20 3333 ( 1343) k bytes News received on Jan 19 4133 ( 1387) k bytes News received on Jan 18 377 ( 69) k bytes News received on Jan 17 1588 ( 160) k bytes News received on Jan 16 3489 ( 0) k bytes News received on Jan 15 3346 ( 0) k bytes News received on Jan 14 3183 ( 0) k bytes News received on Jan 13 2254 ( 0) k bytes I was looking through the expire(8) man page & it talks about 5000 articles/week (circa 1986). Well I've expired about 1/3 and still have 7316 articles totaling 19985k for 5 days (which works out to about 14000 per week, about the claimed doubling/year of news). Most of the recent flood has come via utzoo (rather than water). I've noticed several articles that I'd seen before and had been expired. My nightly expire job expires junky things in 2 days, then keeps expiring everything else until there's 5Mb free or it gets to 6 days left. As you may surmise from the above, it got down to 6 days, but there was only about 1Mb free. I manually did an 'expire -p -e 11 -E 13' today and got back 6.5Mb. So, what's going on? My guess is that utzoo (or possibly someone further away) had a huge backlog (more than 16Mb (2+ weeks)), which they flushed over the last 3 days (reinstalled C rnews? :-). What I find interesting is that utgpu (our feed) seems to only keep 2 weeks worth of history file, as they were passing along these articles as new. I hope I didn't throw away too much real news with my manual expire, but spool space was getting pretty minimal (I know I didn't throw away anything that I read, and my feeds (with the possible exception of spectrix (we'll see when they start picking up news)) haven't missed anything (more good luck than good management on my part)). I've heard that the flood filled ontmoh's spool space, I wonder about others. Any comments? And what groups does mnetor bring in these days vs. what water brings in? ../Dave
brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) (01/27/88)
In article <272@tmsoft.UUCP> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes: >...I've >heard that the flood filled ontmoh's spool space, I wonder about others. Yep. ncrcan blew up over the weekend, too. Brian.