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- From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
- Subject: Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.161211.1076@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <19110@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <BxKL53.HKq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:12:11 GMT
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- In article <BxKL53.HKq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro) writes:
- >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
- >>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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- The main bottleneck in NewsGrazer is the NNTP feed.
- The one I use is breakneck-fast early in the morning (low use) and
- slow as a slug by mid-afternoon.
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- Eric
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