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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  
> >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.
> 
> --
> William Magro                                       NeXTMail welcome
> wmagro@uiuc.edu

I got similar responses out of NewsGrazer on an over-extended Ethernet
that was experiencing transmission difficulties.  Strange that in this
case, NewsGrazer seemed to be the most affected-- everything else sort
of worked.

Shortened the e-net line and the symptoms went away.

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