Well, you don't fully realize what it means to have a lot of small logs
until you offer to take a few lists from FINHUTC and fall within a hair's
breadth of being sent three thousand five hundred individual files :-)
The database functions get impossibly slow if you have too many files. It
just takes time to open tons of small files containing a couple messages
each when you have to do a text search. There is more data to get from
the disk, and there is more system overhead involved. That's why the old
LISTS database could take a minute on a 3090-class machine for a "dumb
search" when the new one only takes 3-5 seconds. What is so bad with
weekly or monthly logs?
Eric