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From: schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: relaynews too slow
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Date: 20 Sep 90 21:27:57 GMT
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We have a problem with C news.  When we first installed it, incoming nntp
connections would spool articles into /usr/spool/news/in.coming faster than
relaynews could process them.  I installed a patch that has rnews run
relaynews -r immediately which solves our problem with the large in.coming
batches (there are no more) but now I have about 23 nntpd's that are waiting
for relaynews -r to complete.

The 23 relaynews -r we have running are all waiting for the current relaynews
to finish with the LOCK file.

We are using dbz.

Neighbors are complaining that their nntpxmits are running too slowly to us.

What am I doing wrong?

	Steve