Subj : Re: pack and purge
To   : g00r00
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Wed Feb 09 2022 02:22 pm

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 :)

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