At 09:09 AM 2/1/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>So here's something I don't understand then. The following tells me that I
>have 882mb currently in the parts area from a total of 2gb, which is less
>than half full. Why would 126mb have been dropped? I would have thought that
>the parts buffer keeps articles in it untill it's full, and then drops them.
>This looks like they are being dropped on a time basis rather than a
>disk-space basis.
>
>Parts 1992:257 882mb, In 1295 505mb, Complete 546 209mb, 42% 41%, Rej 0%
>
>Drop 126mb, Err 0 Rotated 1814 minutes ago, Upto 6 0.49 20
this is because the part buffer has to be 'very' fast, so it doesn't try
and fill in the gaps created by items that were complete, instead
it just cycles merrily thru from beginning to end. This does waste some
space but typically the size of the part buffer
isn't all that critical, whereas it's processing speed is.
ChrisP.
