Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!xstor!bang!iverson
From: iverson@bang.uucp (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C-News slooownesss  (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.043827.2260@bang.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 91 04:38:27 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.054713.26531@mdivax1.uucp>
Distribution: na
Organization: House of the Smoking Gun
Lines: 25

In article <1991Jan18.054713.26531@mdivax1.uucp> mdivax1!mdi!tim writes:
>SPARC 1+	SunOS 4.1	C news - Patchdate 15-Dec-1990 (#23)
>====================================================================
>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, this info may or may not be applicable to your case, since you're
using a sun and I'm using a 386 w/ sco unix, but I had exactly the same
problem you're describing, but in addtion to being slow, *very* large
history files were created (10MB+? - I stopped it before it finished).

The problem?  Some of the modules of dbz were compiled using different
compilers - cc and rcc (aka pcc), which use different methods of returning
structures.  I eliminated the problem by recompiling the whole thing with
gcc 1.38 and it has performed flawlessly since then.

> Internet:                 <tim@MDI.COM>      |     Tim Rosmus (Sys Analyst)
> ...uw-beaver!sunup------\                    |    Mobile  Data  International
> ...uunet-------------------!mdisea!tim       |     19807 North Creek Parkway
> ...van-bc!mdivax1-------/                    |    Bothell, WA  (206) 487-5928

- Tim Iverson
  uunet!xstor!iverson