david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) (02/21/89)
Word on the net is that 3.0 Netnews may be out shortly and C News may
also be out soon. The question I have is what are the advantages
of each? The configuration I am concerned about is a machine whose
sole reason for being is to pass news, since it passes a LOT of news
it does not have many CPU cycles to spare. The bottom line
is "Will C News and/or 3.0 Netnews speed up inews/rnews and expire?"
and if so how much? I do not care about news readers since they
all use NNTP and are on different machines.
Any comments from the beta testers or other knowledgeable people
is appreciated.
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David Robinson elroy!david@csvax.caltech.edu ARPA
david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov ARPA
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Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (02/21/89)
In article <13818@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes: >Word on the net is that 3.0 Netnews may be out shortly and C News may >also be out soon. The question I have is what are the advantages >of each? To sum up very briefly, both are cleaner re-implementations; C News is almost certainly ahead on performance and simplicity, 3.0 News on being a complete and self-sufficient package (C News is just the transport and storage subsystems) that does everything you could want (C News favors simplicity over features). >... The bottom line >is "Will C News and/or 3.0 Netnews speed up inews/rnews and expire?" >and if so how much? ... Yes, both will. I don't have performance numbers for 3.0, but C News speeds up processing of incoming news by a factor of 20-30 (we haven't run timings lately). Expire is also substantially faster. -- The Earth is our mother; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology our nine months are up. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) (02/23/89)
> Word on the net is that 3.0 Netnews may be out shortly and C News may > also be out soon. The question I have is what are the advantages > of each? C News was written by Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer. This alone is a formidable advantage. Mark Brader "I don't care HOW you format char c; while ((c = SoftQuad Inc., Toronto getchar()) != EOF) putchar(c); ... this code is a utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com bug waiting to happen from the outset." --Doug Gwyn
sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (03/18/89)
In article <1989Mar3.160835.16485@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <7235@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: >>I also believe that News 3.0 does not support NNTP. > >I'd be very surprised if Eric had left out something so significant. > Eric has used the NNTP changes I made to news 2.11 as his basis for NNTP support. To my knowledge, they have not been beta tested at any NNTP site. I tried to beta it here and it doesn't work without changes to nntp itself. Hopefully, Eric will get back in touch and we'll get it checked out. I don't remember what the bulk of the changes are now, but there are alot of them. News 3.0 is NOT compatible with nntp 1.5 as it stands. Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Baylor College of Medicine Olan uucp: {rice,killer,hoptoad}!academ!sob Barber Opinions expressed are only mine.