nnrpd question

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jake Roersma <jaker at tsunami.triton.net> writes:
> 
> > I take that back, it seems to be getting hung when there is an over
> > usage of the NEXT command.  Is there a way to combat that, by disabling
> > the NEXT functionality of INN??
> 
> If I remember from previous discussions of this, you get a significant
> speedup by turning nnrpdcheckart off in inn.conf.  But we weren't sure why
> this was....

It depends on your storage method, I think.  Checking the existence of an 
article can be expensive.  (But that explains why XOVER is horribly slow; 
a single invocation of NEXT shouldn't be too bad.)

Jake, can you reproduce this with commands issued manually (telnet to 119) 
or only with the newsreader?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org