Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?

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From: Eric Scott Boltz
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:12

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In article <BxKL53.HKq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro) writes:
>In article <19110@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> stuarts@jeeves.ucdavis.edu (Stuart  
>Staniford-Chen) writes:
>>
>>I have started using NewsGrazer lately.  It's lovely to use, except that  
>>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.

The main bottleneck in NewsGrazer is the NNTP feed.
The one I use is breakneck-fast early in the morning (low use) and
slow as a slug by mid-afternoon.

Eric

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