MB> Phil,

 MB> Tuesday June 05 2018 12:32, you wrote to All:

 PK>> I recall a few years ago experiencing a similiar problem with hpt &
 PK>> squish msg bases.

 MB> At some point in the past I have ran hpt against squish bases without 
 MB> issue.  But, I have always maintained a strict processing work flow 
 MB> which ensured that no two things which might alter the message base 
 MB> files would access them.  By alter, I mean pack or renumber.  
 MB> Appending to is fine.

Thanks for the advice.  I ended up doing something similiar in that hp is
called by a script when binkd recives mail. No inbound mail, no need to run
hpt. Everything is low volume & more for personal use at the moment, so
I scan & pack after logging off msged.

 MB> These days I run JAM but as far as process workflow I go a step 
 MB> further and kick off processing only by cron job processing at 
 MB> minimum once a minute and not at all if no nothing is received.  Due 
 MB> to the abundance of space thanks in part to modern storage I don't 
 MB> bother pack the message bases at all.  Fidonet can likely grow to the 
 MB> end of its existence and never fill up the measly 100GB of space 
 MB> allocated to it (currently at 16%).
I feel it was more due to file corruption after reading some of the other's
comments. The file sizes were grossly inflated beyond physical
capabilities.  I only have a 10GB hard drive partition setup & one file
was reporting 300+GB. Not possible - it wasnt the fidonews echo either!

 MB> Take care,
 MB> Matt

Thanks much!
Phil

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