Thanks for all of your assistance.  Unfortunately, I was not given time to
attempt the reverse list purge, as suggested by Lars and Gaven.  The Group
was purged!

Now I get the pleasure of rebuilding the current data from backups.

..and of course creating an automated purging system to keep this monster
at bay.

Thanks again for all your assistance,

Phil Conard

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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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