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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:05:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INN vs. DNews
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001220004340.27283-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001212350550.23487-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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> > 
> > Dnews supports suck feeds, but also takes IHAVE streaming full feeds. With
> > each new release of INN, my performance fell.
> 
> With both CNFS buffers and buffindexed, my performance using INN has
> greatly improved over previous releases ... the current -stable release,
> unfortunately, doesn't have all the benefits of the current -current tree,
> but its kinda like FreeBSD ... if you are willing to take a chance,
> -current works very well, you just have to pick when you upgrade ...
> 

Now this is all news to me - I left INN when buckets were first introduced
(and had hardcoded MMAP)

> > 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.
> 
> Huh?  INN never forked processes to handle connections ... unless you are
> referring to an innfeed process for outgoing news?

nnrpd's buds!  1 per user.



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