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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uuxqt problems with news
Message-ID: <1916@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 05:50:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1916
Posted: Fri May 22 05:50:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 15:46:57 EDT
References: <116@bvax.UUCP> <311@pollux.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 33
Keywords: news, VAX 730, HELP!
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:2488 news.sysadmin:211

In article <311@pollux.UUCP> jgd@pollux.UUCP (Dr. James George Dunham) writes:
> In article <116@bvax.UUCP> dave@bvax.UUCP (Dave Wallace) writes:
> >
> >I can
> >get up to 6 of these running at once, which causes the 730 to slow down
> >just a bit (-: . I currently get my feed from one site and don't send
> >to anyone else ( until I get this problem resolved. ) It takes the 730
> >most of a working day to process 6 or 7 batch files in /usr/spool/uucp! It
> >seems like these processes are fighing them selves. Any body have
> >any suggestions? 
> 
>     We reduced the priority of our news jobs so they would not interfere
> with other users doing work on our system and have a similiar problem.

One good solution is to create an rnews script that gets executed via uucp
that simply copies the files into a temporary directory with a unique name.
The you can have something running from crontab that each hour starts up
and processes the queued news.  Of course this script can test, either via
ps or with a lock file, whether one is still running and abort...

This kind of approach can be extended to also keep the incoming stream
around for a couple of days to make for easy recovery.

Another area to look at is how much time is being sucked up by compress.
Compress used to get real hoggy if you used full 16-bit compression.  While
this may have been improved, you may find that changing your feed to 12-bit
compression reduces the cpu/memory load at only a slight increase in your
telephone costs.
 
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)