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|    Paul Hayton to g00r00    |
|    Re: pack and purge    |
|    09 Feb 22 14:22:23    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 3:770/100 edede7fe       REPLY: 1:129/215 85f08a36       TZUTC: 1300       On 08 Feb 2022 at 12:19p, g00r00 pondered and said...                g0> I would also add to this that purging/packing the msg/file bases isn't        g0> something that I would be expected to do nightly either.        g0>         g0> It shouldn't hurt things to run every night but it does recreate all of        g0> your msg/file base data files and is probably the "heaviest" process        g0> that MUTIL does.        g0>         g0> I personally run it manually every month or so but if I had a public BBS        g0> I'd probably schedule it to run once per week.              Yep. good thoughts thanks... I recall it was packing that was the more       intensive, is that right?              Could you happily purge more often than pack?              The other question I had was regarding linking, is it better to link each time       packets are processed or do you think it's more of a nightly thing?              Thanks :)              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)        * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 114/705 120/340 123/120 131       SEEN-BY: 129/305 330 331 153/7715 154/10 218/840 220/70 226/17 30       SEEN-BY: 226/100 227/114 229/110 206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 550       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/5832 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 298/25 301/1 305/2 3 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 3 100 340 772/210 220 230       PATH: 770/100 1 317/3 229/426           |
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