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From: royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Where am I going wrong?
Keywords: relaynews and speed.
Message-ID: <73545@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 16:37:54 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Indiana University
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My configuration:
Sparcstation 1+, 12 Meg RAM, 30 Meg swap.
Cnews, nntp, 3 full feeds, 12 partial.


My in.coming spool is running terribly behind, can I make
runnews process articles faster?

I observed that it was processing 50 articles per minute, always.
Looked through runnews and tried changing the 50 in the sed script
to 100 and to 200.  Still processed 50 articles per minute.
( 100 every 2 minutes  or 200 every 4 minutes, you get the idea )

Figured it must be a limit somewhere in relaynews, but I grep'ed
for every pattern I could think of and could not find any 50s
or sleep()s.

Are there any parameters I can set to make it process more
news faster?  I'm currently 9000 articles behind after only
14 hours and I had to kill off the nntpds.


HELP!

-- 

Keenan Royle
royle@cs.indiana.edu                         	postmaster@cs.indiana.edu
royle@iubacs.bitnet