Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!ames!oliveb!sun!pope@vatican 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> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: pope@vatican (John Pope) Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 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. -- John Pope Sun Microsystems, Inc. pope@sun.COM