Re: netnews at 115Kbps via satellite

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From: John Core
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00

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keith@ksmith2.ksmith.com (Keith Smith) wrote:

>Doesn't have to be.  A lot of the delays are with the news software,
>which does a whole lot of stuff to insure no duplication among other
>things.  With adequate memory, and if you can be relatively sure you
>aren't downlinking any duplicates you can speed up memory unbatching by
>a LARGE factor.  like 4-8 times as fast.  I'm working on a custom news
>system for the satellite feed.  It makes a LOT of assumptions, but is
>totally designed for SPEED, SPEED, SPEED.  It is going to be a real
>memory PIG, and will probably require at least 32MB of RAM to run
>effectively.

Our local ISP uses a P90 running Unixware II with 32 megs of ram and it serves 3
feeds at 3 articles per second.. Let's not blame all our problems on hardware.

BTW we are setting up the same exact thing to receive pagesat. It would be
nice if pagesat could blow that away, but no such luck even at the future
promised 115k.

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From: johncore@frackit.com (John Core)
Subject: Re: netnews at 115Kbps via satellite
Date: 1995/11/14
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