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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: nice in nntp
Message-ID: <11933@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 10 Apr 91 01:37:57 GMT
References: <1991Apr05.103214.11915@ghost.unimi.it>
Reply-To: leres@ee.lbl.gov (ucbvax!leres for uucp weenies)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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X-Local-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 18:37:57 PDT

Marco Negri writes:
>       I would like to know any opinion on adding a "nice" field
>       in the nntpd configuration file.
>       Ex.:
>
> usenet.rpi.edu                xfer    no      nice=-1
> itnsg1.cineca.it      xfer    no      nice=0
> next1.unimi.it                read    post    nice=+5

I've done something similar but my code discriminates based on netnews
activity, not hostname:

    0 - Peer transfers
    4 - article expiration
    8 - article unbatching
    12 - article reading

I decided right off the bat to avoid negative priorities; I figure you
don't want anything getting in the way of logging in to fix problems.

		Craig