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: CNews building up files in "in.coming" Message-ID: <9690@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 29 Oct 89 23:00:11 GMT References: <1989Oct22.192159.4827@acd4.UUCP> <1989Oct23.023759.17067@utzoo.uucp> <1989Oct25.023352.8840@twwells.com> <9686@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <254859E3.19004@ateng.com> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 18 >>The horrible per batch start-up overhead of C news make large batches the >>only way to go. > >C News overhead isn't "horrible" no matter what you look at. Except for >inews, maybe. :-) But inews isn't involved in unbatching. I posted test results awhile back showing that C news was slower than B news*. Given the design goals of C news, this is horrible. Please post your test results that show otherwise. * Sys V, 50k batches, measured for all processes (there were many) from rnews to article being in the spool directory. There was also much more disk i/o for C news. -- Branch Technology