At 01:55 PM 1/17/01 +0100, you wrote:
>I discovered that my history file had a size of about 256 MB, which is about
>1/4 of my total feed. After a Rebuild_index it shrinked to 30 MB. Are there
>rules for maintenace for the server? Lets say;
It sounds like your expire process may have been disabled? You
should have in dnews.conf
expire_at 5 2
And tellnews status should show information about an expire running
each night.
>1. Every month rebuild_index
No, should never be needed normally.
>2. Every 2 months defragmentation (btw i can't defragmentize my HD because
>of the recommended clustersize. What rogram do i have to use?)
Probably no point, the data is rotated thru the server every 3-4 days so you
would need to do it more often. Also with the large clustersize fragmentation
shouldn't really be affecting it badly. I believe the commercial versions of
the defrag tools can deal with the large cluster sizes but I'm not 100% sure.
(try diskeeper)
>3. etc...
ChrisP.
