Re: articles.gdbm file never get's smaller in size

Jim Hague <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:14:08 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.noffle.user
Organization The Bear Cave
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 19-Oct-2003 Miernik wrote:
> My /var/spool/noffle/data/articles.gdbm file never gets smaller in 
> size.

Unfortunately, that's right. Noffle uses a gdbm file to store articles. Gdbm
doesn't shrink files normally and desn't appear to be that good at reclaiming
deleted space, though the gdbm manual page claims gdbm will reuse space vacated
by deleted records.

To really shrink the files, you need to use noffle's rebuild option. Check the
noffle manual page for 'noffle --rebuild'.

-- 
Jim Hague - [email protected]          Never trust a computer you can't lift.


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