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- Subject: USENET FLOW ANALYSIS for JUN 95: Who stores how much news
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- Analysis of stored news articles, JUN 95.
-
- This is an analysis of the contents of /usr/spool/news at the sites reporting
- "inpaths" data. The "inpaths" program has been posted in
- news.lists.ps-maps,comp.sources.d,news.admin.misc. Please consider installing
- and running this program at your site.
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-
- Presumed size of overall network: 350000 sites
- Number of sites surveyed: 336 (0.1%)
- Average age of articles kept online: 9.1 days
- Average age of disk space used by news: 11.2 days
- Average disk space used by news: 527.8 megabytes
- Average number of articles stored: 175927
- Estimated worldwide disk space used by news 180 terabytes
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- Distribution of expiration times used
- 0-1 5 **********
- 1-2 7 **************
- 2-3 18 ************************************
- 3-4 19 **************************************
- 4-5 30 ************************************************************
- 5-6 27 ******************************************************
- 6-7 23 **********************************************
- 7-8 23 **********************************************
- 8-9 16 ********************************
- 9-10 26 ****************************************************
- 10-12 25 **************************************************
- 12-14 17 **********************************
- 14-16 8 ****************
- 16-18 14 ****************************
- 18-20 29 **********************************************************
- 20-25 11 **********************
- 25-30 6 ************
- 30-35 6 ************
- 35-40 1 **
- 40-45 2 ****
- 45-50 7 **************
- 50-75 7 **************
- 75-100 5 **********
- 100-125 0
- 125-150 0
- 150-175 0
- 175-200 3 ******
- 200-225 1 **
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- Notes:
- The "average disk space used by news" assumes that the host operating
- system allocates disk space in a fixed "chunk size" of about 1000
- bytes. The size of each stored message is rounded up to the next
- multiple of that chunk size.
-
- The "average age of articles" is an average counting each article
- equally. The "average age of disk space" is weighted by size.
-
- The "expiration time" for a site is not necessarily constant. Some
- newsgroups that are considered more valuable are given longer
- expiration times, while obvious junk is given a shorter expiration
- time. To come up with a single expiration time for a site, we find
- the average age of stored articles and then double it, rounding to
- the nearest integer. If you expire all articles older than 14 days,
- and if the arrival rate is constant, then the average age of
- articles at your site will be 7 days.
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