Disk I/O limited: C News or INN?

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From: John Schmitz
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:06

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I have a system running the performance release of C News.
Everything is fine except for the fact that it gets quite a bit
behind in processing news relative to other systems I'm aware of (a
couple hours on similar cpu's).  A quick look at the system shows it
to be limited by disk I/O, not CPU.  The question:  is there any
reason to expect INN to be better in this case?  Presumably both C
News and INN have to shove the same bits around.  Or maybe INN will
be better since the data won't first get written to in.coming and
then re-written to the news spool?  The site in question gets a
nearly full feed via NNTP and uses the reference nntpd.
/usr/spool/news is on one disk (including in.coming) and
/usr/local/lib/news is on another.  Comments?

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From: schmitz@scd.hp.com (John Schmitz)
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Subject: Disk I/O limited: C News or INN?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:06:04 -0800
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