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From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: How much of a load is nntp?
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Date: 16 Nov 90 22:00:48 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.155532.3384@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
>Does nntp cause much of a performance hit on the system the clients are
>getting the news from? What would be a ballpark figure for the max
>number of clients you would want to service before considering down-
>loading the news to a remote site?

I'm running C-news/NNTP on a DECstation 3100, and with fifty-five connections
at any given time, there's barely over one load point, and that's with
about 10 news transmitters running and an AFS file server going as well.
The CPU time is minimal -- think about it:  the process accesses and
transmits only that which is needed, and the vast majority of time
in an NNTP client connection is spent with the person reading the text
that was sent, with the program doing nothing.

--
	Mike Pelletier - Usenet News Admin & Programmer
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 something to be gotten rid of, but something to be danced with."