Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!necis!mrst!apollo!rees
From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Running rn, rnews, etc on DN3000's / DSP90's
Message-ID: <39d45212.b8ab@apollo.uucp>
Date: 22 Jan 88 16:59:00 GMT
References: <8801201837.AA20797@BOEING.COM>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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The news software pretty much works as is.  If you try to use it
on a network containing lots of users, you start running into
some locking and concurrency problems.  Many of these are present
in the software to begin with, but no one notices them because
they don't have thousands of simultaneous users (as we do).
Others result from the implicit locking used in the domain network.

I have about 50K of patches to the news software to make it work
better on apollo systems.  I'll mail it to anyone who is interested.
It's completely disorganized.  You have to wade through 27 patches,
decide which ones are needed, which ones are just hacks, which ones
depend on what else, and so on.  I would be really happy if someone
would take this mess, turn it into a useable package, and give it
to ADUS.  It should be someone familiar with the news software and
with the way the domain file system works.  Any takers?

By the way, we have about 3000 nodes here all reading news out of
a single lib and spool directory.  (Not all at the same time, of
course.  We actually do real work, too.)