Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Lots of dups Message-ID: <9688@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 27 Oct 89 13:39:48 GMT References: <1989Oct25.164024.14894@ctr.columbia.edu> <1989Oct25.205129.16397@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Oct26.164042.4692@utzoo.uucp> <1989Oct27.012640.27706@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 15 >>(Incidentally, the oft-seen suggestion of running relaynews as a daemon >>doesn't really help very much. An article is not really received until >>it, its history-file line, and the update to the relevant active-file >>line(s), are flushed out to disk. Flushing data to disk is a big part >>of the setup/teardown overhead. If you do it once per article, the >>overhead goes way up. I don't believe this. The per batch overhead in C news is huge compared to a couple of flushes per article. Articles themselves are always flushed to disk on a per article basis. -- Branch Technology