Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:06:12 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups? Message-ID: <508FECE4.9040408@ulb.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <CADGWnjVsA6k1waWYbPSXB6zsBOBTk5orgifMhh39yCogNEOXyA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADGWnjVsA6k1waWYbPSXB6zsBOBTk5orgifMhh39yCogNEOXyA@mail.gmail.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000202040404040009010803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit slrn ? http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ On 10/30/2012 15:56, C. P. Ghost wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an NNTP newsreader that can gracefully > handle newsgroups with a *huge* number of posts, if > possible with a moderate memory and CPU footprint. > > My newsreader of choice, news/tin, while quite good for > newsgroups with a moderate number of articles can't > cope with some alt.binaries.* groups that contain over > 2,000,000+ active/unread articles. It effectively thrashes > the system and consumes enormous amounts of swap > space and CPU cycles just for opening such a newsgroup. > It also takes ages to update the local index as well, because > it keeps fetching headers for articles that don't even exist or > should have been skipped, according to ~/.newsrc > > If you wonder about such huge newsgroups: they are > increasingly common now that commercial NNTP providers > are over 1,000+ retention days for binaries, and some of > those newsgroups are being flooded with crap in an attempt > to DoS them. > > What NNTP newsreader are you using? Which one would > you recommend for those huge newsgroups? > > Thanks, > -cpghost. > -- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. --------------000202040404040009010803--
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