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From: billc@wupulm.wustl.EDU (Bill Canning)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to speed up uucp with Telebits(only getting 800 chars/sec )
Summary: Configure news to do a nice on rnews
Keywords: news rnews nice unbatch
Message-ID: <121@wupulm.wustl.EDU>
Date: 10 Jul 89 17:04:18 GMT
References: <200038@hrc.UUCP> <3175@csccat.UUCP> <240@sopwith.UUCP>
Reply-To: billc@wupulm.UUCP (Bill Canning)
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In article <240@sopwith.UUCP> snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <3175@csccat.UUCP> jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler) writes:
>
>|	Think about, some computer (mine) can't take
>|	having 9600 baud shoved down it's throat and unbatch news
>|	at the same time. :-)
>
>A quick and dirty way to keep news unbatching from dragging down uucp
>throughput is to set up a shell script rnews which invokes the real
>rnews niced down to 20....

News2.11 can be configured to automatically do a nice on rnews for you, and
the niceness is configurable.  The #define is in defs.h. This is a little
more elegant solution.

I hope this helps,
Bill Canning
billc%wupulm@wupost.wustl.EDU