Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?

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From: William Magro
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:02

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In article <19110@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> stuarts@jeeves.ucdavis.edu (Stuart  
Staniford-Chen) writes:
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>I have started using NewsGrazer lately.  It's lovely to use, except that  
>it's so darned slow.  I can understand that things like fetching articles
>from the nntp server would be slow.  However, just hitting a menu option  
>to get a submenu takes 5 to 10 seconds.  Editing this post is agony  
>because it is so slow to update the window.  It cannot keep up with my  
>typing and loses a lot of what I input.  
Hmm.  I use news grazer on a similar setup to yours (16M ram, 25MHz  
68040), and I don't have any problems with speed.  Perhaps your machine is  
thrashing because you are using too much swap space?  Just a thought.

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William Magro                                       NeXTMail welcome
wmagro@uiuc.edu

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