stuart@genrad.UUCP (Stuart Hollander) (06/24/83)
news 2.10, I do a % readnews -n net.unix-wizards -x and it waits a long, long time before I get a response. The timing shows about 57seconds system time and about 3 seconds user time. On our system now, the filenames for the unix-wizards news articles are up into the 3000's. On groups where the number is very low, like 200, the above commands takes very little time. Does anyone have a fix for this problem? --Stuart Hollander (genrad!stuart)
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/26/83)
I can suggest a fix. I haven't actually looked but from the symptoms
you describe I'll bet readnews is looping on an access system call, or
an open (just about the same thing). I suggest that the 'active' file
contain not only the next item number, but the first, also. Expire
could keep this up to date. So your active file might look like:
...
net.unix-wizards 03400 03117
net.trivia 00106 00099
...
Readnews and such could start from the second number, instead of 0 or 1.
- Chris
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Somebody recently posted a set of routines that speed up readnews finding
the first article. Hopefully someone at your site archived them and can
get them installed. If not, I can look around and see if I still have them,
they do a GOOD job of speeding things up.
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