Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1540 news.software.nntp:65 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!linus!raybed2!cvbnet2!aperez From: aperez@cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Reading news: NNTP v.s. NFS for access to the database Message-ID: <166@cvbnet2.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 88 21:48:10 GMT References: <1167@luth.luth.se> Sender: postnews@cvbnet2.UUCP Lines: 23 From article <1167@luth.luth.se>, by sow@eru.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg): > In article <11498@cisunx.UUCP> cmf@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) writes: > |In article <19153@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@kazoo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: Actually I've found quite the contrary. In my environment, using NNTP is about 5 - oo (that's infinity) times fasting than using NFS. Our configuration here has the NNTP server machine on a different sub-net than the one that I log onto. When I mount the NEWS directory response time is anywhere from 1 minute to 1/2 hour. Don't know why but I would guest that the NFS udp packets take too long on the round trip forcing all kinds of retransmissions and other messy things. Back before I got NNTP up, I would start a vn running as soon as I walked in and attempt to read articles while waiting for compiles and so forth. I never did manage to catch up. With NNTP, I can read ALL my newsgroups within 1/2 hour. I was really disgusted (still am) with NFS once I found that out. Arturo Perez ComputerVision, a division of Prime primerd!cvbnet!aperez The difference between genius and idiocy is that genius has its limits.