Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!steve From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: NNTP vs Cnews (was: Re: Cnews is not for me) Message-ID: <13517@nuchat.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 14:48:18 GMT References: <2828@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1989Aug12.221624.12153@utstat.uucp> <1894@ucsd.EDU> <1989Aug13.071802.5187@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) Organization: Houston Public Access Lines: 16 In article <1989Aug13.071802.5187@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >efficient processing of large amounts of news requires amortizing setup >overhead over more than one article, while lightning-fast propagation The solution I'm working on is to run a server process as a monitor supervising the LIBDIR data structures. It gets set up at boot time and is free to cache whatever it (I) finds expedient. You trade swap space for time, but with news running most of the time anyway the swap space is spent. This soluiton is partially motivated by a desire for smarter and easier-to-administer propagation algorithms, but it wins speed too. -- Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services uunet!nuchat!steve POB 890952 Houston, Texas 77289 (713) 964 2462 Consultation & Systems, Support for PD Software.