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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP
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References: <1991Jun6.041416.21913@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 91 05:13:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.041416.21913@neon.Stanford.EDU> 
            philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
> |jenner@post.ntu.edu.au writes:
> |> I have reverted back to v1.0x hoping that Bill will come up with a fix for  
the
> |> above. It is a great product and my boss will definitely approve a site
> |> license.
> 
> I'm glad somebody likes it - this presumably means that the author
> will continue to support it and make improvements. Aside from the
> fact that I seem to be the only person who finds it terminally
> unstable, I hope the author will do something about the performance.
> 
> If I ask XRN to do a rescan, it takes a couple of seconds. The News takes
> minutes (effectively) to do the same thing.

Hmm.  Minutes?  For what?  I just started up TheNews using my news group file  
and it took 30-35 seconds for it to read the 1000-something line file and come  
up with the list of unread articles for the 15 newsgroups I actually follow  
thru it.  I then opened a newsgroup that had 298 unread messages, and it took  
TheNews about 23 seconds to list all the headers for all those unread messages  
(sorted, no less...).  Took about 3 seconds on a newsgroup with only 7 unread  
articles to list.  This is on a Mac IIci, your mileage may of course vary...

Are you running system 6 or system 7?  I found TheNews to be the only Mac  
program I have which stumbled across the problem that the famed MMINIT  
addressed.  When running under system 6 I did need the MMINIT or TheNews would  
drive me nuts on large groups.  Those memory manager changes are included in  
system 7 (DON'T use the init with system 7!), so if you're running system 7  
then you would not be effected by the memory manager performance glitch.

If you're running system 6 without the MMINIT, then TheNews might seem awfully  
slow.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA