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From: fk@kos.rci.dk (Fleming Kraglund)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: C-News speed (Was: Where am I going wrong?)
Keywords: relaynews and speed.
Message-ID: <1112@kos.rci.dk>
Date: 26 Nov 90 16:55:41 GMT
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royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle) writes:

>My configuration:
>Sparcstation 1+, 12 Meg RAM, 30 Meg swap.
>Cnews, nntp, 3 full feeds, 12 partial.

Does that include a NDP unit?

Since CNews is using awk for many things (and awk is using floats and not ints)
your speed is dependent on the speed of float operations.

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

[and about processing 50 articles per. minute]

What we need is sed scripts.

just my .02$

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Flemming Kraglund             fk@rci.dk                  This is my OWN opinion