Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: SKIM.com Message-ID: <8908090742.AA13494@uunet.uu.net> Date: 9 Aug 89 17:34:30 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS DiscussionReply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 21 larry michalewicz writes --- > After adding about 300 NNTP served newsgroups we ran into the problem of >our daily SKIM com file takes about 14 hours (real time) to run. Any ideas on >how we can reduce the time it takes. > >BTW..we are running ANU vers. 5.8a and VMS v5.1-1 Try SKIM/NOFILECHECK to reduce the amount of file lookups performed by NEWS. Secondly you may also include the qualifier /NODIRECT to remove the directory pass I suspect that the major component of the SKIM is the NNTP transactions between the client and server - you can reduce this by reducing the item retention time on the client. Apart from that then the major overhead is simply shipping out over NNTP lists of what the client thinks the server has in each newsgroup, and the server shipping back a list of new items to add and old items to delete from the client's database. Geoff Huston