Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: newsreader w/posting ability WANTED Keywords: NEWS, NEWSREADER, HELP, ADVICE, SEND-ME Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 90 21:30:45 GMT References: <2355@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <13525@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 15 In article <13525@milton.u.washington.edu> wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) writes: >News is slow because nntpd, the process supplying the news articles, is slow. >Switching News so it would read articles directly from disk would help a lot. That's one really hosed nntpd, then. We run nntpd on a Sun 3/50 (our slowest machine), and we have seen no performance problems at all. I'd suspect the reader first... -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view." --Obi-Wan Kenobi in "The Empire Strikes Back"