The only thing i've been able to do is delete pretty much everything and let it build up again (which it does in about 2 days), but it's a right pain.. D At 11:23 AM 12/30/97 +1100, you wrote: > > > Ditto, solaris 2.6 (x86) seems to do same thing. It didnt expire at all >and filled the hard drive. However once I drop the expire time down to 3-4 days >it had an impact running it manually. > > When the disk is getting full, does it run expire and only expire if >the articles are over the age set in the config file, or does it expire the >oldest articles until there is a certain amount of disk space left. I would think >it would be more logical to expire old articles back to a setting set in the >config file (.e.g. expire until 20 meg free) even if it is under the expire >age. > > Thinking off the top of my head, what about a high water and low water >mark for the cache. When it hits the high water mark maybe it just proxies >and doesnt cache anything until it hits the low water mark. Im just thinking >if it expires until X Meg is free, it could just sit there continually expiring >as nntpcache continues to cache new stuff. > > If any of the above rambling makes sense I would be suprised. > >Ben Doyle >Hutchison Telecoms. > >> >> >> >> >> >> I have the same problem - when I run nntpcache -e it segfaults and dumps >> core. It also doesnt seem to expire correctly, as it fills the hard disk >> in my news server and then causes problems. >> >> This is Linux 2.0.32 with nntpcache 1.0.7.1 >> >> regards >> >> >> Gary Allpike >> Q-Net Australia >> > > > |------------------------allanon@shadow.comcen.com.au---------------------| | | | | | Daniel R. Eddy | Dial-UP, ISDN. | (02) 9436 1889 (P) | | System Administrator | Web Site Hosting/Design | (03) 9419 3011 (P) | | Internet Co-Ordinator | Secure Web Server | (02) 9906 4620 (F) | | | | | | "I understand your concerns. Request denied." - Data | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
