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Re: Ebay auction Group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:18:15 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > Well, part of the problem may be the way I have it configured. OE caches
> > headers, which in general is REAL NICE, but does mean that it takes some
> > time to get into a newsgroup, even if there are just a couple unread • posts
> > since it reads all those cached headers into memory (which of course • turns
> > it into a memory hog). I may have to re-configure it to only cache a • certain
> > number of messages (looks like the only choice is "days after • downloading").
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> Hmm, what do you do for RTL? Most ISPs don't save more than 2-4 weeks back
> (typically) for most groups, but if someone was reading it for a long time
> and had cached headers on, they'd have to set some kind of expiry so that
> they didn't wind up with 5,000 new messages per month. Maybe if you set
> the article expiry to 90 days, that would be a good number.
It actually keeps useless RTL headers around. I don't do that much reading
of RTL from home though. I think there's something I do every once in a blue
moon to purge the expired headers for RTL.
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Warning on the following, there is a gear shift which may have been missed.
At home I use OE on Windows 95, at work I use Netscape 3.01 on an RS/6000
running AIX.
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> > When I've had some scattered ancient unread messages in Netscape, it • seems
> > like it has also taken a while to download the messages. I don't know if
> > this is due to the number of header requests it needs to make, due to
> > processing the .newsrc file, or something else. I suspect it's mostly the
> > number of requests, and is noticeable due to the firewall at work (which • is
> > way overloaded so there is a high cost for certain transactions, web • pages
> > with tons of tiny pictures are incredibly painfull to view).
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> Must be either re-fetching the .overview file, or really bad at processing
> the cached list. If it's doing LB_INSERT's into a Win32 listbox, for
> example, that could take a while if they forgot to turn off the refresh bit
> while adding. Still, it shouldn't take more than 5 or so seconds. How • long
> is Netscape making you wait?
Well, it is doing inserts into the listbox, but being an RS/6000 running
AIX, it's X's equivalent (perhaps, not sure what widget Netscape 3.01
actually uses for the article window). It usually takes a minimum of 5
seconds to get a newsgroup from Lugnet, even a small one. Newsgroups from an
onsite news server tend take about 5 seconds for the whole list (well, 500
or 1000 items which is what I've got Netscape configured to fetch). I
usually stop the download once I see posts a week old or so (fortunately it
loads from the newest first, could that be slowing it down also?). Netscape
doesn't cache the list.
Frank
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