Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews on 3B2/600
Message-ID: <1989Jun23.194121.1820@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jun22.215559.20578@attdso.att.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 19:41:21 GMT

In article <1989Jun22.215559.20578@attdso.att.com> tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde) writes:
>... an initial problem with relaynews and permissions.  The
>program could not create the lockfile needed to post a new article.  I
>ended up removing the call to setids(), and now it seems to operate
>properly with relaynews setuid to news.

The whole setuid business is a bit of a swamp; the just-released patch
includes some small improvements.

>Secondly, I've noticed that the L option in the sys file does not seem to
>work properly...

I *think* this is the same bug as one we heard about a few days ago, and
fixed in the patch.

>The third, and most serious problem, has to do with performance on
>ihave/sendme...

We plead guilty to not having paid much attention to ihave/sendme performance.
We have a low opinion of ihave/sendme.

>... It takes almost two hours to process an ihave with
>400 message id's, on a fairly empty machine.

I admit that's slow enough to seriously surprise me.  I'll have to punt
the issue to Geoff, however, since it's his code.

>... With a performance difference this great, I'm thinking
>about dropping ihave/sendme entirely and just rejecting lots of articles
>as duplicates...

Provided you don't incur major transmission charges, we think that's generally
a superior approach.
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