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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Wanted: news batching with compression
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 15:05:37 EST
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> From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP
> Subject: Re: Wanted: news batching with compression
> Message-ID: <2294@watcgl.UUCP>
> 
> If forking rnews once per article is your worst problem with news, you
> aren't feeding many other machines.  We found that most of the overhead
> was in uux, queueing articles for other machines.  Once we started
> batching news, the overhead went down enormously.

We feed news to decwrl, fortune, dual, onyx, sco, cae780. I think that's
a reasonable number of machines. We couldn't do it without batching. With
batching, it seems the rnews forking is now the place where the most CPU
time is being spent.
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil