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Re: Lugnet slowing down?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:10:30 GMT
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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:

sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:

Agent produces a separate task for each download of messages,
apparently. I don't know if it tries to execute these simultaneous or
not.

I hope it doesn't create a separate NNTP connection for each thread!

Agent does all tasks in sequential order. But when downloading binaries
during the normal download of postings, it changes between the tasks...
And I don't think it makes more than one connections to the nntp-server.
Maybe a control-connection, but I'm not sure. My regular ISP had a time
where it didn't allow for more than two connections at the same time
(because it's a cable-tv ISP, some people where using their home-pc as a
newsserver for dial ins...), and I didn't have problems with that. Outlook
(ok, it's not a news-client, but some people are using it, tho...) does make
several connections at once.

Ardjan



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  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)

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