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Started by Stuart Staniford-Chen
Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:29
Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
Author: Stuart Staniford-Chen
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:29
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:29
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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. So, how can this be? All these basic operations are in the Appkit - how did Adams contrive to make them so slow? Or is it just me - is there something I need to tweak in order to make the interactive performance adequate? I'm using version 2.0 release 72.2 on a 25MHz 68040 with 2.1. I have 20Mb memory and a 400Mb hard drive. I don't have any similar problems with other apps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuart Staniford-Chen : stuarts@jeeves.ucdavis.edu Department of Physics : NeXT-Mail cheerfully accepted. UC Davis, CA 95616, USA. : regular email is fine too.
Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
Author: William Magro
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:02
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: > >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
Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
Author: Eric Scott Boltz
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:12
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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