[3479] in SIPB bug reports
xrn appears slower now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Feb 1 11:04:55 1993
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 11:04:31 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, usenet@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Barry Jaspan"'s message of Sat, 30 Jan 93 20:21:56 -0500 <9301310121.AA19565@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 20:21:56 -0500
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
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.
I've had no such problems running either xrn or betaxrn against
senator-bedfellow, either before or after the switch.
I suspect that the problem will go away if you use "rn" once to read
news, so that you're caught up in everything, and then try using xrn
again.
Also, try doing "unlimit" before running xrn.
jik
