found one of my problems

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

>} No, letting innd do it. Would it be better to use overchan with buffindexed?
>
>You need to set up newsfeeds if useoverchan is true, since
>innd stops writing overview if it's true.  And I don't think
>you need to run overchan.  External overview creation would
>be useful, if you use tradindexed which I think is bottleneck
>of feed performance.

yeah, i had gotten the feeling from the install docs that it's better to 
let innd do the overview writing.
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