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- From: wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)
- Subject: Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
- References: <19110@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:02:58 GMT
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- In article <19110@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> stuarts@jeeves.ucdavis.edu (Stuart
- Staniford-Chen) writes:
- >
- >I have started using NewsGrazer lately. It's lovely to use, except that
- >it's so darned slow. I can understand that things like fetching articles
- >from the nntp server would be slow. However, just hitting a menu option
- >to get a submenu takes 5 to 10 seconds. Editing this post is agony
- >because it is so slow to update the window. It cannot keep up with my
- >typing and loses a lot of what I input.
- Hmm. I use news grazer on a similar setup to yours (16M ram, 25MHz
- 68040), and I don't have any problems with speed. Perhaps your machine is
- thrashing because you are using too much swap space? Just a thought.
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