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From: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: limiting news to certain hours of the day?
Message-ID: <386@cuae2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 02:16:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: cuae2.386
Posted: Thu Jul 25 02:16:24 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 08:21:04 EDT
References: <726@lsuc.UUCP> <3019@nsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (-Ron Heiby)
Organization: AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL
Lines: 19
Summary: 

I found that I had a similar problem.  Response time on my system was
kinda draggin' with a uucico or two, plus five users doing software
development, plus the news unbatching (on an AT&T 3B2/300 running some
experimental O.S. code).  So, I modified inews a bit to make the news
unbatching "nice".  The following fragment is from around line 735
in ifuncs.c.  My addition is marked with the comment "RWH".

		sprintf(unbatcher, "%s/%s", LIB, BATCH);
		reset_stdin();
		nice(15);		/* RWH */
		execl(unbatcher, "news-unpack", (char *)0);
		xerror("Unable to exec shell to unpack news.");

It could have been 19 instead of 15, for all I care.  If someone more
familiar with the netnews code sees a problem with this, please let
us know.  I can't see one.
-- 
Ron Heiby	heiby@cuae2.UUCP	(via ihnp4)
AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL	(312) 810-6109