Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: how to lower news-transmission overhead Message-ID: <10692@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 14 Dec 88 01:41:02 GMT References: <26469@bu-cs.bu.edu> <267@ssbn.wlk.com> <486@mccc.uucp> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 32 ok, let me throw you a small curve and see what you do with it. Our news system is over on one machine, s.ms.uky.edu, a Sequent Symmetry with 22 processors, 40 megs of memory and enough CPU horsepower that it's starting to edge into Mainframe & SuperComputer territory. (Please, I know that I'm slightly loose with the terminology) We have oodles of NNTP feeds running from that machine (and if you're reading this and are on SURAnet, contact me for a feed ..., or if you are otherwise fairly close to SURAnet). *BUT* our other, non-NNTP, feeds don't run off that machine. Instead they run from g.ms.uky.edu which is a poor little uVaxII with only 13 megs of memory, 1 processor, and enough CPU horsepower to sneeze at random intervals. The hardest part of the configuration around here is that nobody else in the world, that I know of, runs a system with news files on one system and all the UUCP connections on another. (Not to mention the BITNET connections ... we do feed & receive news over BITNET). So of course all the shell scripts and such assume that to send a batch out you call uux. On our system we call a ".cmd" file to save the batch away into a file in the batching directory, then other shell scripts pick up these files and compress & uux them over to the remote machine... Can *that* be handled cleaner? -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- By Michelle betrayed!