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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong?
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.053030.3026@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <73545@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 05:30:30 GMT

In article <73545@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle) writes:
>My in.coming spool is running terribly behind, can I make
>runnews process articles faster?

I assume you mean newsrun?

>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.

There is no deliberate rate limiting; that would be a silly thing to do.

Are you perhaps using dbm rather than dbz?  That's a mistake, dbz is
much faster.  (How old is your C News?)

Is your NNTP dropping articles into in.coming one file per article,
instead of in batches?  If so, look no further for the performance problem.
Throughput is enormously higher for batches.
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"I'm not sure it's possible            | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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