[2325] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.17beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Dec 5 14:06:03 1991
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 14:04:06 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: reza@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, usenet@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: reza@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 5 Dec 91 13:45:20 -0500 <9112051845.AA09833@m66-305-1.MIT.EDU>
From: reza@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 13:45:20 -0500
xrn is so extremely slow these days that it is almost useless. I
just waited over ten minutes for it to switch from one newsgroup to
the next.
Unfortunately, we are currently somewhat low on disk space to store
news on the news server. As a result, we have to run the "expire"
program to remove old news articles twice per day, at noon and
midnight, instead of just once. Expire runs for several hours and
puts a significant amount of load on the machine, which slows things
down.
We are working on getting more disk space, and when we do, we will be
able to run expire only once, at midnight. Performance will improve
at that time.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
--> Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
