Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C-News slooownesss  (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.175155.1691@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan18.054713.26531@mdivax1.uucp>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 1991 17:51:55 GMT

In article <1991Jan18.054713.26531@mdivax1.uucp> mdivax1!mdi!tim writes:
>I'm just bringing up C-news on this systems and I'm finding that relaynews
>is unpacking (adding to the spool/history file) one article about every
>one or two MINUTES !!!   This seems horribly SLOW.  No changes or tweeks
>were done to DBZ on the initial build...

Well, *something* is badly wrong.  Did you rebuild the history file?  What
does your history.dir file look like?  (It's ASCII.)  Is expire running
successfully?  (This matters because expire re-sizes the dbz hash tables
to match actual traffic loads.)
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