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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: Re: RE: A New Topic -- Tuning News
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Date: 18 Feb 90 02:13:35 GMT
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>controller) back and moved the NEWS directory tree onto one of them
>(it had been on a DEC RA82).
>
>I note that NEWS now takes just about half the time to start up (ie from
>typing NEWS at DCL to getting the "DIR/NEW" screen displayed) that it did
>while the stuff was on the RA82.
>
>This purely unscientific test suggests that NEWS startup time is predominated
>by disk I/O.
     
yep - and tuning the file NEWS.ITEMS is the one to concentrate on - the file is
big and very dynamic in terms of record insertions and deletions.
     
Geoff