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From: aperez@cvbnet.UUCP (Arturo Perez x6739)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP or NFS for sharing news?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 18:51:24 GMT
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About 2 years ago we used NFS to share news.  I found that it took about
2-3 MINUTES to access each article read.  Needless to say, at that rate
it would take all day to read any significant amount of news.

I once posted a query about it to the net (i.e. why is NFS taking so long)
and everyone said "Your NFS is tuned wrong."  Of course, since no one knew
my network configuration and I don't know NFS I decided not to do anthing
about it.  I suspect it may have something to do with the 1/2 dozen or so
gateways 'twixt me and the news server.

Now we use NNTP.  It takes me 1 hour (daily) to read the news from 60
newsgroups which average 10 messages each.

Needless to say, we much prefer NNTP.  We seem to average 10 nntpd running
all day long, at a site with an /etc/hosts file that runs to ~2500.  Some
day I really must figure out who reads news...

Please realize that this anecdotal evidence may be theoretically wrong.  But
NNTP works much better for us than NFS did.

Arturo Perez
ComputerVision, a division of Prime
aperez@cvbnet.prime.com
Too much information, like a bullet through my brain -- The Police