Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!ukma!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!cs-col!toto!haug From: haug@toto.uucp (Brian R Haug) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews questions Message-ID: <1989Oct3.002735.22962@toto.uucp> Date: 3 Oct 89 00:27:35 GMT References: <643@wash08.UUCP> Reply-To: haug@Columbia.NCR.COM (Brian Haug) Organization: Personal machine, Columbia, SC Lines: 22 In article <643@wash08.UUCP> rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes: >I have just installed cnews on my system (NCR Tower 32/650, SYSVR2) >and I have a question. > >It seems that the unbatching of articles is taking forever! >There are currently 75 newsbatches left to run, some have been in >the queue for 18 hours! The unbatching has been running for 17 of >those 18 hours, but it sure doesn't seem to be making any progress! > >Where can I look? > I am running C news on a Tower 32/600 and by examining the log file /usr/lib/news/log it appears that it is taking around 4 or 5 seconds to process each article. You might want to find out if you are getting a batched feed or each article individually fed to rnews. Unless I've drasticly misunderstood Henry Spencer the latter should have "dreadful" performance. Hope that this helps. Share and Enjoy! Brian (haug@Columbia.NCR.COM)