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Subject: USENET FLOW ANALYSIS for JUN 95: Who stores how much news
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.
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
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 **
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.