wallis@wsucsa.uucp (12/14/89)
Dear NetLanders:
I have just put up ANU NEWS on our VAX 8650 (VMS 5.1.1, CMU TCP
6.4, NEWS 5.9). I am trying to get NEWS to work with articles that are
stored on a remote machine (linked via TCP/IP). I just killed a process
that has been creating newsgroups. I got a list of approved newsgroups
and ran it through news, creating a COM file. Then I edited the COM file
to put /SERVER=xxxx, /PROTOCOL=TCP on every SET NEWSGROUP command. First
it creates the newsgroup, then it tells news that the newsgroup is served
off of some other node. The trouble is, this process takes a LONG, LONG,
LONG time. You can see the "item entry added" messages go by slowly. I have
been looking for bottlenecks, but I haven't found any so far. Our CPU is
relatively unburdened now (end of the semester, most of the students are
gone), little or no page-faults being registered for the process, moderate
I/O. The other site (the server) has a busy CPU (lots of batch jobs), but the
NNTP server there has a priority of six, so that shouldn't affect it. The job
creating newsgroups has been running for hours on end for now. It seems that
Ethernet or Internet speeds should be faster than this.
What could be causing such SLOW performance?
Thanks in advance,
Tom Wallis
PS> I am sending this via another NEWS machine, using 2400 baud modems,
NEWS 5.7, and DECUS UUCP. Nice software!!!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Wallis BITNET: WALLIS@TWSUVAX
System Manager, Computer Science Dept. BITNET: TWWALLIS@TWSUVM
Wichita State University UUCP: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!wsucsa!wallis
Wichita, Ks. 67208 Internet: wallis@wsucsa.wsu.ukans.edu
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the
views of the Computer Science Department or Wichita State University.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------