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From: pope@vatican (John Pope)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Reading news: NNTP v.s. NFS for access to the database
Message-ID: <63849@sun.uucp>
Date: 11 Aug 88 00:39:39 GMT
References: <1167@luth.luth.se> <166@cvbnet2.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: aperez@cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.)

In article <166@cvbnet2.UUCP>, aperez@cvbnet2 (Arturo Perez Ext.) writes:
>
>...When I mount the NEWS directory response
>time is anywhere from 1 minute to 1/2 hour.

Sounds like a system configuration problem, not an NFS problem. NFS-mounting is
quite a bit faster than NNTP for me, with the difference being especially
noticable as the network becomes more heavily loaded.

>Arturo Perez
>ComputerVision, a division of Prime
>primerd!cvbnet!aperez
>The difference between genius and idiocy is that genius has its limits.
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John Pope
	Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
		pope@sun.COM