From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:glickman
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: slow inews
Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.1631
Posted: Tue Jun 22 12:31:50 1982
Received: Sun Jun 27 02:21:51 1982

inews was profiled on the ARPAVAX and you know who uses the most time?
history().  Our history file was so long that it was slowing down inews
immensely.  Some words to the wise:  Keep the history file short.

Another slow thing in inews is retransmitting articles.  Forking shells
all over is a disaster.  I don't believe the option to not fork a shell
works yet, however.  Just something to consider, for the time being.

	Matt