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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: 2.11 efficiency problem
Message-ID: <330@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 19:06:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 15 19:06:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 08:35:39 EST
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
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I find that inews spends a vast amount of *CPU* time copying each article of a
batch to a temporary file -- something like several minutes to copy about 50K
bytes of a single article (this takes about 15 minutes real time for a single
article at the moment with the load at 5.0).  I simply cannot believe it can be
so inefficient!  It was a *lot* faster when it forked "unbatch".

We run 2.11, with patches up to #7 applied, on 4.2 BSD on a VAX 11/750.
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