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From: William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Q: news servers
>It really seems to have ballooned. A year ago a full feed was only 4GB
>per day.
Which is when my info's from; I got them to give up trying to host it
ourselves a year and a half ago.
>I don't think the history file benefits so much from being on a striped
>disk. The news spool itself certainly does.
Every message that comes in generates one or more entries in the history
file.
A year and a half ago, that was about 1.5 messages per second. I would
presume it's up around 4 or more per second now, based on the volume, but
that number is a guess (and I hope somebody will chime in with better
numbers.)
Writing a minimum of 4 entries per second to that one file is going to be
pretty taxing if it's all on one spindle. A lot of messages are
cross-posts, too.
(Ok, it's a couple of files, but still. db databases aren't meant to be
super fast with massive volume.)
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