🚀 go-pugleaf

on 25 May 89 11:56:21 GMT,
karl@cis.ohio-state.edu  (Karl Kleinpaste) said:
kk> Hm - I use a Sun3/50 with an NFS-mounted /usr/spool/news most of the
kk> time, and I seldom have any problem.  When there are a *lot* of
kk> articles in the newsgroup, exit may take a while, but that's
kk> relatively infrequent.  Can you provide examples?  How many articles,
kk> how much Xref: resolution, etc, make it seem slow?

Karl and Dave Lawrence pointed out that deleting cross references was
fast on their comparable machines. Knowing that it was a local problem
enabled me to easily track down the problem.

We run Cnews (alpha) on radio. The alpha expire doesn't update the low
article number in the active file, there is a separate program to be
run periodically for that. I hadn't been running that program, so most
of the newsgroups had low article numbers of zero, and high numbers in
the many thousands. Fixing this has brought, e.g., the time from
exiting rec.music.cd today (6 unread articles) from over 30 seconds to
not noticeable. Thanks!

kk> You're not an idiot[...]

Maybe you should retract!

Brian
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