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  Lugnet slowing down?
 
Does it seem to anyone else that lugnet.com is being slower to download messages? At various times yesterday, for an hour today, and still now as I write this I have been downloading messages. And Agent STILL says it has 137 tasks left to complete (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) It was technically, according to my watch, exactly 9:53AM when I wrote the time in that article and my Task number was still steadily heading downward as time passed. So, I don't know why the load was 0.00. I was still busily downloading "all (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) I had never thought of capitalization as a pronunciations guide. Perhaps I should write my name: Sarah HeAcock and see if it works? No, I just type VERY quickly and sometimes don't let go of the shift key fast enough -- you'll also (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) Here is a list of the points in the past 3 days where the server load average was 0.5 or higher: Sat Sep 26 03:14:00 EDT 1998 0.51 Sat Sep 26 11:13:00 EDT 1998 0.78 Sat Sep 26 11:52:00 EDT 1998 1.51 Sat Sep 26 11:53:00 EDT 1998 0.55 Sat Sep 26 (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) CNews (the newsserver software running here) is super-wicked efficient, so it's possible for it to serve data to 1 person (maybe 2) with a load average still at 0.00 -- since it's a load average is an average, after all. But I still think it's (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
Op een zekere dag, te weten Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:37:20 GMT, klom lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Agent does all tasks in sequential order. But when downloading binaries during the normal download of postings, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) You do have a sig configured in Agent, right? No need to be typing your name all the time. :) -- Unofficial listing of weekly Lego Shop at Home phone specials (URL) (S@H USA) / 800-267-5346 ext 222 (S@H Canada) www.auczilla.com - World's (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
Op een zekere dag, te weten Sat, 3 Oct 1998 03:22:01 GMT, klom cjc@newsguy.com (Mike Stanley) in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) I also have sigs defined in Agent, but I still type my name by hand. I think I convinced myself to give it a more (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) Nope. No sig. It does not seem worth the effort to figure out how to do it for just my name Sarah sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) The PS issue is definitely a good point. Hadn't thought of that. (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) 3 clicks. Options, Posting Preferences, Signatures. :) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) Posting my experiences, better late than never. I ran into slow retrieval of messages when I used my home machine, on a typical connection (~26K). On my machine at work, with a fast connection, I don't notice any slow-down. Grabbing the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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