Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Wanted: news batching with compression Message-ID: <2294@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 13:12:54 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2294 Posted: Thu Mar 22 13:12:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:11:08 EST References: <952@qubix.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 4 If forking rnews once per article is your worst problem with news, you aren't feeding many other machines. We found that most of the overhead was in uux, queueing articles for other machines. Once we started batching news, the overhead went down enormously.