Size question ...

[David W. Hankins]

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 03:59:56PM -0600, Charlie Watts wrote:
> what I _don't_ receive from them over the land-line feeds. However,
> skycache is fairly slow - and I receive everything from the land feeds
> before skycache offers. Thus using all of my available bandwidth.

SkyCache has a ~2 second delay over the satellite by packet natively, in
practice with large articles and whatnot it winds up being between 3
seconds (average due to the number of tiny articles) and 2 minutes,
depending on the size of the article.

Nothing to be done about this really without article corruption in the
case of the satellite losing packets.

> Is there anyway to do something like this? Is there anyway my land-line
> feeds can "delay" sending articles to me for several minutes? Seems like
> it would require an enormous emount of buffer space to do so ...

Only 80KB or so.  Think inn nntpsend/innxmit, spawned every 5 minutes or
so, your system fed that way for large articles (>32KB), small articles go
direct immediately via normal means.  The hope then is that only a small
portion of the delayed articles get fed.

A lot of people might not be willing to set it up, for various reasons both
good and bad, but it's certainly technically feasible.

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