[3475] in SIPB bug reports
xrn appears slower now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Sat Jan 30 20:22:40 1993
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 20:21:56 -0500
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, usenet@Athena.MIT.EDU
I know this will sound crazy, but reading news via xrn has seemed
considerably slower since the switchover to the new servers.
Furthermore, I (and other users, I believe) have been getting out of
memory errors from xrn when I (we) did not used to.
Perhaps the speed, or some other characteristic, of the new news
system causes xrn to use much more memory. Maybe it is caching more
than it should. Whenever I run it, the machine starts page thrashing,
until eventually xrn just aborts. But there is no question that the
overall system is slower than it was.
Barry
