Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!yale!ox.com!itivax!hela!hela.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Cnews Batching Strangeness Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 15:34:08 GMT Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 22 Before I dive in to look for bugs, I thought I'd see if others have similar problems or it I've done something obviously stoopid . . . The batchparms file in Cnews should let us control batching parameters. Part of it seems to work, part of it doesn't. Here's the edited-down file: # site size queue builder muncher sender # ---- ---- ----- ------- ------- ------ /default/ 100000 20 batcher compcun viauux # Cnews sites lokkur 200000 60 batcher comp viauux clif 50000 20 batcher comp viauux The muncher, sender, builder and queue fields all seem to work fine. But size is wildly off. Site clif has been receiving batches as big as 250K compressed, and as small as a few bytes (only the 'compressed' magic number). Site lokkur gets batches with similar variation. Both sites are expertly administered (lokkur is my home machine). Sites which run at the defaults are fine (or at least are not complaining).