Xref: utzoo news.software.b:6588 comp.sys.hp:7326 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cellar!toad From: toad@cellar.UUCP (Tony Shepps) Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Incredibly slow C News unbatch Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 02:42:05 GMT References: <1991Jan8.222513.262@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: root@cellar.UUCP (Superuser) Organization: The Cellar BBS +1 215 336 9503 Lines: 19 > In article <1991Jan8.192242.1330@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) write > >I tried to install C News on an HP 370 under HP-UX 6.5. When relaynews > >runs, it unbatches at about 3 articles per _minute_. What's wrong? > > The standard reason for this is that you have an extremely old C News > and you are using our old dbm emulation, which was a performance disaster. > Get a modern copy of the software, with dbz. OK, what could be the reason if you HAVE a dbz version? We're seeing about two articles a minute... We did try compiling dbz without the O option, as suggested in the problems file. We're running SCO Unix on a 386, and there is nothing else running on the machine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The Cellar BBS, a responsible, kind, and caring public-access Unix site - Ignore address above; send mail through cellar!toad@uunet.uu.net