Re: [Gossip] More Missing messages OR ....Does everything have to be done at once?

2002-06-22 Thread Earl Hood
On June 22, 2002 at 19:01, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > Should there be message expiration [?] > > Yeah, I think we've hit the runaway success point where it is > helpful. I think I am going to limit maximum archive size to a > few thousand messages after the new hardware is in place and there

Re: [Gossip] More Missing messages OR ....Does everything have tobe done at once?

2002-06-22 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Earl is correct. MHonArc computation is not the bottleneck, disk space is. Latency is still under 24 hours if things run at full tilt, but that doesn't happen when your disk I/O system is spending ages searching for the few free inodes amongst the billions already used. We do use a lot of CPU --

Re: [Gossip] More Missing messages OR ....Does everything have to be done at once?

2002-06-22 Thread Earl Hood
On June 22, 2002 at 15:48, "William J. Kammerer" wrote: > As a side issue, are you beginning to wonder whether MHonArc is really > suited for a massively scalable system of mail archiving such as yours? > It seems to me that over 99% of all e-mail received by the Mail Archive > will never be look

Re: [Gossip] More Missing messages OR ....Does everything have to be done at once?

2002-06-22 Thread William J. Kammerer
Thanks for your assurance that the "missing" messages are not permanently lost. Again, many thanks for your service. As a side issue, are you beginning to wonder whether MHonArc is really suited for a massively scalable system of mail archiving such as yours? It seems to me that over 99% of all

Re: [Gossip] More Missing messages

2002-06-22 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I have them all sitting in a storage location. So they are not lost. No esitmate on how long they will sit, though. -Jeff On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 07:22, William J. Kammerer wrote: > Does this mean the messages from the 17th are lost forever? Or will > they will magically appear sometime when you'

Re: [Gossip] More Missing messages

2002-06-22 Thread William J. Kammerer
Does this mean the messages from the 17th are lost forever? Or will they will magically appear sometime when you've able to retrieve them? William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Breidenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C