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[Russ Allbery]

John Newman <jnn at jump.net> writes:

> Has anyone noticed problems where tin takes forever to retrieve overview
> information and when it finally does it says no articles for the group?
> The server works fine with Free Agent, overviews are fast and the
> articles are there, doesn't work at all with tin.  My other server with
> a Dec. 14th snapshot works great with both.  Diffs show no significant
> differences in config files and I've tried it with ovdb, tradindexed and
> buffindexed, which is what I'm currently using.  Storage method is CNFS.

I'm grasping at straws here, since I've not seen any other reports of
this, but could tin be compiled to not use regular overview but to use
only the odd alternate overview that tin supports?

Another possibility is that in CNFS it can take a bit longer than with
some other storage mechanisms to scan the group to get an accurate article
count.  Is nnrpdcheckart turned on in inn.conf, and does changing that
setting make any difference?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>