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From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.
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Date: 16 Feb 1996 06:23:20 GMT
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T. William Wells (bill@twwells.com) wrote:

: 210 ms plus 326 ms plus 22 ms....558ms/article. No *way* that's
: going to keep up with today's full newsfeed. Never mind
: tomorrow's.
Yes, and it isnt a good way to send article by article. 
I think, that a window-mechanism (like other transmission-protocols)
would be a nice solution under nntp. That must be better then multiple feeds.

: However, at this point, the big number is the local processing
: time...and that's subject to local fixes. 315ms *is* excessive.
: I could damned near file them manually in that time. :-)
Cant this be increasing by compiler-optimization?
(only a "make" in /usr/port/news/inn/ is only -g, i think ...)

Lars.