khai@amara.uucp (S. Khai Mong) (11/08/89)
Apologies for munging up the subject line in my original posting . . . Now about the slow startup time. I tracked down to the fact that it had really nothing to do with gnus. It was the server that was taking forever to initially respond. Then, somebody sent me this over the mail: > On a sun without a nameserver, but with nntpd compiled with -lresolv, > all nntp clients is very slow at upstart. > > It has just been discussed on news.software.nntp So I recompiled my nntpd without -lresolv and now it works quite well now. It is now as fast as using a local news spool. Perhaps about five to ten seconds startup time on a Sun3/60 server and client. I can live with that. Previously, it was taking one or two minutes to do anything. -- Sao Khai Mong: Applied Dynamics, 3800 Stone School Road, Ann Arbor, Mi48108 (313)973-1300 (uunet|sharkey)!amara!khai khai%amara.uucp@mailgw.cc.umich.edu