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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to speed up uucp with Telebits(only getting 800 chars/sec )
Keywords: news rnews nice unbatch
Message-ID: <9604@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 19 Jul 89 18:17:14 GMT
References: <200038@hrc.UUCP> <3175@csccat.UUCP> <240@sopwith.UUCP> <817@omen.UUCP> <4979@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
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Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <4979@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer) writes:
>In article <817@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>> The problem with nice'ing rnews is its disk intensive
>> operation.  Nice'ing rnews doesn't make it all that nice :-)
>
 
A few programs that do alot of disk i/o need a sleep(1) here and there.
It made my system much more usable when cnews expire was running.





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