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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Other SCO '386 "news" users?
Message-ID: <535@spdcc.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 88 06:04:21 GMT
References: <144@mkunix.UUCP>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: sco,xenix,unix,386,news,rnews,netnews

In article <144@mkunix.UUCP>, tyager@mkunix.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:
] I'd like to start a dialogue with other users running the netnews
] software under SCO Xenix for the 80386. I'm having various problems, not
] the least of which is the fact that when uux calls up 'rnews', my system
] goes nuts: the hard drive starts seeking almost constantly, and no other
] user can get any better than 30-45 second response time. This doesn't
] seem to happen when I run 'rnews' manually, but I'd really like to know
] what's going on.

I am inclined to think the problem may lie with your configuration;
I'm running SCO XENIX 386 and news (albeit on a relatively unloaded
system) without any such problem.  How much memory is on your system,
how much disk, how many users are there when this happens, and what
are they typically doing?
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer