[leafnode-list] Re: running texpire weekly instead of daily?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 12.07.2012 13:06, schrieb Adam Funk:
> I have a fairly long retention period in my leafnode configuration,
> and the cron.daily/leafnode job takes about 1 hour to run.  (I'm
> running leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20110807b.luascript, and the cron script
> might have been copied from an old Debian/Ubuntu package.)
> 
> Is the texpire running time related more to the size of the spool or
> the number of articles that it decides to delete?

Adam,

it is the number of articles that matters most, and to how many groups
they are cross-posted.

> Would it do any harm to run it weekly instead of daily?

I don't think so, if you can spare the disk space for expired articles
for six more days (which I suppose).  There are no implicit dependencies
on texpire being run daily.  Leafnode was originally written in the
1990s when disk space was a premium. :)

HTH
Matthias