Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!RADIO.ASTRO.UTORONTO.CA!brian From: brian@RADIO.ASTRO.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Glendenning) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Novice GNUS questions Message-ID: <8905251423.AA03611@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> Date: 25 May 89 14:23:32 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 on 25 May 89 11:56:21 GMT, karl@cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) said: kk> Hm - I use a Sun3/50 with an NFS-mounted /usr/spool/news most of the kk> time, and I seldom have any problem. When there are a *lot* of kk> articles in the newsgroup, exit may take a while, but that's kk> relatively infrequent. Can you provide examples? How many articles, kk> how much Xref: resolution, etc, make it seem slow? Karl and Dave Lawrence pointed out that deleting cross references was fast on their comparable machines. Knowing that it was a local problem enabled me to easily track down the problem. We run Cnews (alpha) on radio. The alpha expire doesn't update the low article number in the active file, there is a separate program to be run periodically for that. I hadn't been running that program, so most of the newsgroups had low article numbers of zero, and high numbers in the many thousands. Fixing this has brought, e.g., the time from exiting rec.music.cd today (6 unread articles) from over 30 seconds to not noticeable. Thanks! kk> You're not an idiot[...] Maybe you should retract! Brian -- Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca uunet!utai!radio!brian glendenn@utorphys.bitnet