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From: ken@i-core.UUCP (Ken MacLeod)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews questions
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.032122.2807@i-core.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 03:21:22 GMT
References: <643@wash08.UUCP> <1989Oct3.002735.22962@toto.uucp>
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In article <1989Oct3.002735.22962@toto.uucp>, haug@toto.uucp (Brian R Haug) writes:
> In article <643@wash08.UUCP> rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes:
> >the queue for 18 hours!  The unbatching has been running for 17 of
> >those 18 hours, but it sure doesn't seem to be making any progress!
> I am running C news on a Tower 32/600 and by examining the log file
> /usr/lib/news/log it appears that it is taking around 4 or 5 seconds to process

  I had the same slowdown problem on the Tower, C going as slow/slower than
B news.  I took the lazy way out and switched to dbz and have been getting
1-2 articles/sec without problems.  (Down from 4-6/min, Thanks Henry and
Geoff!)