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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
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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.
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