Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: latest dbz vs. ndbm? Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 89 12:28:32 GMT References: <1989Nov12.013643.1358@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <779@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 18 In-reply-to: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu's message of 12 Nov 89 22:45:47 GMT In article <779@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes: > > I run B-news on a Sun with OS4.0.1 which has ndbm. Can anyone tell me > how dbz compares to this (as opposed to plain old dbm)? Does ndbm > include any speedups over old dbm? Should I be using ndbm or dbz? well, i am still running bnews and i just installed the version of dbz that just went across the net. i got about a factor of 4 speed increase on my expires. the size of my history.pag also dropped in size by a factor of 4. i tried using the incore option, but it looks like bnews patchlevel 14 doesnt call dbmclose, so it didnt work... i am not sure how much of this speed increase is because the files now fit mostly in my disk cache, but for me it was worth it. -wayne