tim (01/18/91)
SPARC 1+ SunOS 4.1 C news - Patchdate 15-Dec-1990 (#23) ==================================================================== I know this has been around already but I didn't think I'd need it. (sorry) I'm just bringing up C-news on this systems and I'm finding that relaynews is unpacking (adding to the spool/history file) one article about every one or two MINUTES !!! This seems horribly SLOW. No changes or tweeks were done to DBZ on the initial build. Please let me know what I forgot or have done wrong otherwise I'll head back to good'ol Bnews which I've been battling with since 1983. Thanks -- Internet: <tim@MDI.COM> | Tim Rosmus (Sys Analyst) ...uw-beaver!sunup------\ | Mobile Data International ...uunet-------------------!mdisea!tim | 19807 North Creek Parkway ...van-bc!mdivax1-------/ | Bothell, WA (206) 487-5928 -- Internet: <tim@MDI.COM> | Tim Rosmus (Sys Analyst) ...uw-beaver!sunup------\ | Mobile Data International ...uunet-------------------!mdisea!tim | 19807 North Creek Parkway ...van-bc!mdivax1-------/ | Bothell, WA (206) 487-5928
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (01/19/91)
In article <1991Jan18.054713.26531@mdivax1.uucp> mdivax1!mdi!tim writes: >I'm just bringing up C-news on this systems and I'm finding that relaynews >is unpacking (adding to the spool/history file) one article about every >one or two MINUTES !!! This seems horribly SLOW. No changes or tweeks >were done to DBZ on the initial build... Well, *something* is badly wrong. Did you rebuild the history file? What does your history.dir file look like? (It's ASCII.) Is expire running successfully? (This matters because expire re-sizes the dbz hash tables to match actual traffic loads.) -- If the Space Shuttle was the answer, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology what was the question? | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
iverson@bang.uucp (Tim Iverson) (01/21/91)
In article <1991Jan18.054713.26531@mdivax1.uucp> mdivax1!mdi!tim writes: >SPARC 1+ SunOS 4.1 C news - Patchdate 15-Dec-1990 (#23) >==================================================================== >I'm just bringing up C-news on this systems and I'm finding that relaynews >is unpacking (adding to the spool/history file) one article about every >one or two MINUTES !!! This seems horribly SLOW. No changes or tweeks >were done to DBZ on the initial build. Well, this info may or may not be applicable to your case, since you're using a sun and I'm using a 386 w/ sco unix, but I had exactly the same problem you're describing, but in addtion to being slow, *very* large history files were created (10MB+? - I stopped it before it finished). The problem? Some of the modules of dbz were compiled using different compilers - cc and rcc (aka pcc), which use different methods of returning structures. I eliminated the problem by recompiling the whole thing with gcc 1.38 and it has performed flawlessly since then. > Internet: <tim@MDI.COM> | Tim Rosmus (Sys Analyst) > ...uw-beaver!sunup------\ | Mobile Data International > ...uunet-------------------!mdisea!tim | 19807 North Creek Parkway > ...van-bc!mdivax1-------/ | Bothell, WA (206) 487-5928 - Tim Iverson uunet!xstor!iverson