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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
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Date: 8 Aug 88 21:48:10 GMT
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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
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