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- From: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
- Subject: Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.080011.17380@dtint.uucp>
- Sender: usenet@dtint.uucp
- Reply-To: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
- Organization: Digital Technology, International
- References: <BxKL53.HKq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:00:11 GMT
- Lines: 35
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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
- > >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.
- >
- > --
- > William Magro NeXTMail welcome
- > wmagro@uiuc.edu
-
- I got similar responses out of NewsGrazer on an over-extended Ethernet
- that was experiencing transmission difficulties. Strange that in this
- case, NewsGrazer seemed to be the most affected-- everything else sort
- of worked.
-
- Shortened the e-net line and the symptoms went away.
-
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