2.11.19 w/dbz not rejecting articles

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sat Aug 4 15:55:32 AEST 1990


In article <5693 at obdient.chi.il.us> blair at obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair) writes:
>I would expect dbz performance to start getting real terrible around
>the time file size <= 1.05 * # of articles in history file.

Note that the current dbz -- version 3.0, shipped with C News -- resizes
itself automatically if used right, and also handles overflow (in between
resizings, or if the software doesn't invoke it properly for resizing)
gracefully and fairly efficiently.
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