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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:15:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INN vs. DNews
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001210914330.25336-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000121114445.A6604@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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> But Dnews and INN comparisations aren't really fair.  Last time I looked
> at DNews it did more of a job as per leafnode(+), only fetching those
> groups which are read.  INN is a full fledged newsserver as per
> Typhoon/Breeze class.

Dnews supports suck feeds, but also takes IHAVE streaming full feeds. With
each new release of INN, my performance fell.

I do not know about the current INN - but at the time it forked procs to
handle connections etc, whereas Dnews uses threads.  Less over all ram
consumption.




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