Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Painful interactive posting response from C news
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.181643.29880@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 18:16:43 GMT
References: <ZFF&53@warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <ZFF&53@warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>Posting news via NNTP to our (admittedly overloaded) news server often borders
>on the painful, like time to go and make a cup of coffee...

There's a problem in that the posting strategy basically assumes that the
relaynews lock has a low duty cycle, which is not always true on hard-
working NNTP systems.  Probably the best quick fix is to have inews spool
the stuff rather than firing up relaynews, although then people will
complain that their posting hasn't appeared quickly.  A priority scheme
for input spooling would help, and in fact modifications along these
lines are in the works.
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"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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