Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: High Volume Calls For New Approach Message-ID: <1282@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 01:50:06 GMT References: <26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <267@ssbn.WLK.COM>Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 18 In article karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: =bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes: = There's another thing that would help a lot. If the leaves only take groups = that people actually read then that amount of traffic is eliminated... = =While I think the idea is very good, in practice it causes other =problems of its own. Notable, from my perspective, is the trouble =caused by rnews spending lots of time parsing the sys file. Our =limited resource is mostly CPU (and phone lines; 10 isn't enough... While I'm not sure whether parsing long sys file lines takes much cpu, I do know that batching and compressing for downstream leaves does. For this reason we run a group batch (thanks to csg@pyramid) which allows us to batch once for most of our leaves. It saves a lot of cpu and spool space. It doesn't lend itself to selective batching, though, and it means you'll have to add another sys file line if you want ihave/sendme. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov