I've created a monster.

We've created on online report archiving system, which compresses a file
into a GROUP and writes a record of it into a DB.(Simple Stuff).  It's
been running great now for about 6 months.

However, as of late performace of the machine has went to Hell and the
system has been crashing from time-to-time.  HP reviewed our Memory dump
and informed us that we've reached a maximum of 70,000 files within a
single group.

We've idenfified 40,000 files to purge.  However the system crashes
whenever we attempt to purge files from this.

Unfortunately, this is a 24 x 7 production machine, with peek usage around
300+ users.

Things that we have tried:
* STORE with purge option(Crashed)
* PURGE in a command file(Crashed)
* PURGE in a JOB(Crashed)

Any ideas?  Can something be done within HFS?

Thanks,

Phil Conard
Quadax, Inc.
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