Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: relaynews too slow
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.000826.15925@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep20.212757.12868@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 00:08:26 GMT

In article <1990Sep20.212757.12868@news.arc.nasa.gov> schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
>The 23 relaynews -r we have running are all waiting for the current relaynews
>to finish with the LOCK file.

The integration of relaynews with NNTP is far from seamless at present. :-)
The underlying problem is that NNTP does not take notice of the fact that
transferring and processing articles a batch at a time is much more
efficient than doing them one at a time.  The UUCP community learned that
most of a decade ago, but the Internet community has generally been
reluctant to admit that UUCP has anything to teach them.

There is work in progress, on various fronts, aimed at doing something
about the issue.  It's not a solved problem with a canned solution ready
to hand.
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