auto refresh-keys

MFPA expires2010 at ymail.com
Tue Jun 15 01:54:33 CEST 2010


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Hi


On Monday 14 June 2010 at 6:19:58 PM, in
<mid:4C1664BE.1080500 at fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:


> On 06/14/2010 12:50 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>  * discard all certifications which are larger than some

> sorry, this thought didn't get finished.  it should
> have said:

> * discard all certifications which are larger than some
> pre-defined value (e.g. do no not bother processing
> certifications that are > 512KB in size, as there are
> currently no certifications that need to be anywhere
> near this size.

> The goal, again, is to avoid auto-refresh from chewing
> up too much space on the local disk.

Although, of course, the certifications are all part of OxDECAFDAD.asc
and therefore are still dowmloaded and consume bandwidth. With isks in
excess of a terabyte, why bother expending the extra CPU cycles to
conserve a little disk space?




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