chohan@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Harpal Chohan) (09/13/90)
I've recently installed C News on a newly acquired machine and am still in the process of experiencing for myself the B vs C pros and cons. The setup is a DEC 5400 running Ultrix 4.0 and C News 12-Mar-90. I'm not using the supplied stdio library. I have 20 days worth of news history and expire takes about 90 mins. Does this sound right?? Seems way over the 30 mins other folk have been mentioning. -h The scripts are using /bin/sh though, which I'm going to change to sh5..
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/13/90)
In article <4633@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> chohan@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Harpal Chohan) writes: >The setup is a DEC 5400 running Ultrix 4.0 and C News 12-Mar-90. ... >I have 20 days worth of news history and expire takes about 90 mins. >Does this sound right?? Seems way over the 30 mins other folk >have been mentioning. This is rather slow. However, it's not hard to figure out why: you're using an old C News from the pre-dbz days. Upgrading to current software will speed things up quite a bit. -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry