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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: reading news over NFS vs reading news via NNTP - Performance issues
Message-ID: <654@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 21 Nov 88 07:45:10 GMT
References: <22661@cornell.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <22661@cornell.UUCP> patrick@cs.cornell.edu (Pat Stephenson) writes:

]Given a multi-segment LAN where news is available on a machine that
]runs NNTP and has NFS, are there any performance tradeoffs in choosing
]to read news via NNTP (using rrn or gnews) or NFS (ie remote mounting
]the spool directory and using rn).  I am particulary interested in
]	1) Effects on the network load
]	2) Effects on the server load
]	3) Any *practical experience* people have in these matters.

I'm also interested in the answers concerning NNTP versus RFS versus NFS.
That is, I want to get an evaluation concerning all *3* possibilities.
You may mail me for specific RFS figures.

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