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From: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Lots of dups
Keywords: cnews, nntp, dups
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.234516.4057@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 89 23:45:16 GMT
References: <1989Oct25.164024.14894@ctr.columbia.edu> <1989Oct25.205129.16397@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
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In article <1989Oct25.205129.16397@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:
>>[stuff about lots of dups deleted]


>[About how how to speed up article processing by feeding directly to relynews]
>I've adopted
>the second solution by writing a newsrun daemon written in perl that
>runs about every 10 sec (alas, my code is nowhere near the point where
>I'd release it).

	NNTP starts newsrun on *every* batch of news that arrives.
	I think that if NNTP is getting alot of news, it well
	start up newsrun on the batch already there, then go on to
	recieving more news.  I have not check on this, just what
	I have observed.

	I for one see little use in running newsrun every 10 sec.
	Especially since NNTP incoming batches are named: nntp.XXXXXX
	and newrun looks for batches of the name: XXXXXXXXX.
	X = some numbers.   And also becuase NNTP processes the batches
	right away.

	There is also another problem between C news and NNTP.  This
	has to do with the slight change in history format. If
	you ever see the message "malformed history...." form
	NNTP you just accpeted an dup article.

	NNTP have a routine called gethistinfo() ( or something like that ).
	And C news history file format makes it fail.  So gethistinfo()
	tells NNTP to accept the article.  NNTP needs some more work
	to work correctly with C news..... more things to do....
	

P.S.  I am talking about NNTP 1.5.6

	
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