ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) (03/27/91)
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: [ I wrote: ] > > Basically, just forcibly lower the [ LOCK, from newsrun ] duty cycle. > Actually, in systems where news comes in compressed, there is already an > effect much like this, since newsrun and friends take time off from holding > down LOCK every time they have to decompress a batch. My systems *do* run compressed, but the CPU/disc imbalance on my systems (they're PeeCees :-( and probably too many of them run Unix nowadays :-) means that newsrun goes on for a lot longer than compress, so that amount of holdoff isn't enough. So I do need to increase it, and if I do, I guess there are others who do too. So, an official C news way of doing this would, I think, be useful. Danke Schoen. -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)