FWIW, our permvars.file is 2.6 MB. Here's the most recent entry from our logs (at 12:32 today) about the FIO cache: *** FIO file cache now totals 29372k. A list of cached files follows. *** File size Usage Flags File name --------- ----- ----- --------- 2409k 1 U ****** 747k 1 U ****** 2176k 1 U ****** 1967k 1 U ****** 10491k 1 ****** 11585k 1 U ****** We do shut down LISTSERV once a week to rotate the log file. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Paul Russell wrote: > On 1/12/2005 10:06 AM, Bill Verity wrote: > >>12 Jan 2005 07:03:18 Processing mail from ... > >> > >>*** FIO file cache now totals 5122k. A list of cached files follows. *** > >> > >>File size Usage Flags File name > >>--------- ----- ----- --------- > >> 5122k 1 U /home/listserv/home/permvars.file > >> > >>12 Jan 2005 07:40:12 LISTSERV(R) for unix version 1.8e starting... > > Interesting. > > Our permvars.file is now 2893 KB. What, if anything, can be done to reduce > the size of this file? > > -- > Paul Russell > Senior Systems Administrator > OIT Messaging Services Team > University of Notre Dame > > ==================================================================== James Morrill office: HL 11, 785-532-4909 www-personal.ksu.edu/~james And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. - John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961