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    Lugnet slowing down? —Sarah Heacock
   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? —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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? —Sarah Heacock
     (...) 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? —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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? —Sarah Heacock
      (...) 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? —Mike Stanley
      (...) 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? —Ardjan Besse
       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? —Mike Stanley
       (...) 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? —Sarah Heacock
      (...) 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? —Mike Stanley
      (...) 3 clicks. Options, Posting Preferences, Signatures. :) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Lugnet slowing down? —Ardjan Besse
     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? —Steve Bliss
   (...) 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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