[ Usenet FAQs | Search | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ]
    Search the FAQ Archives

Single Page

Top Document: C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Previous Document: Whenever I post, the Message-ID: header comes out as MessageID:.
Next Document: How can I clean up unused subdirectories in my news spool?


Mkhistory runs for a really long time.


Henry Spencer:
The problem here is that mkhistory's invocation of dbz needs to be smarter;
just plain "dbz" doesn't scale up well to high volume.  This has been on
my to-do list for some time; I didn't expect it to become a critical issue
for real users quite so soon.

The workaround is to give dbz an option along the lines of `-p 700000' to
indicate how big a database it should expect, so it can size its hash
tables accordingly.  If you've got a reasonably modern mkhistory,
"mkhistory -s 1" should arrange this automatically.  (This should
probably become the default.)

Documentation on dbz is in the dbz source subdirectory.



Top Document: C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Previous Document: Whenever I post, the Message-ID: header comes out as MessageID:.
Next Document: How can I clean up unused subdirectories in my news spool?

Single Page


[ Usenet FAQs | Search | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ]

Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer:
linimon@nominil.lonesome.com

Last Update November 22 2008 @ 00:13 AM

© 2008 FAQS.ORG. All rights reserved.