[2399] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.17
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (prc@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 24 18:08:55 1992
From: prc@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 18:08:05 -0500
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
X VERSION, RELEASE, and PATCH LEVEL MACHINE:
[i.e., X Version 11, Release 4, Patch Level 18]
Version 11 (all I know)
CLIENT MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:
[e.g., SparcStation II running SunOS 4.0.3, DECStation 5000 running Ultrix 4.2, ...]
Athena VAXstation 2000 (m11-116-13)
SYNOPSIS:
very, very slow
DESCRIPTION:
This isn't really a bug, and I hate to call it a gripe, but ...
I was running xrn and rn in parallel. On entering a newsgroup with 16
unread articles from both programs simultaneously, I was able to read 14 of the
articles using rn before xrn brought up the first one. I know xrn must be doing
a lot of I/O to get the article header information, but it sure seems slow. Since
I read all the articles, rn must have done the same (or more) file I/O, plus it
had to wait on me!
REPEAT BY:
SAMPLE FIX:
