Re: XNews using hugh amounts of CPU
- From: Mike Dee <mikedee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 26 Oct 2005 01:53:23 +0200
lrc <lrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:2Iidncqveq8xrsPenZ2dnUVZ8qidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx:
>
> So I came to have a look on the newsgroup newsgroup and was amazed
> to find someone with similar problem - and I'm using Yottanews as
> my server (pay service) and wondered if this was a common link and
> possibly part of the problem?
Yes, If Yottanews (pay service) is anything like his beta service
then I think you could be "onto something" here. Theres a long
thread beginning here (in alt.free.newsservers), began by YottaNews
Support with regards to Yottanews beta server. Sorry about the long
Google URL:
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.free.newsservers/browse_thread/thread/dae91c2962a7f8fe/a91091734ab2bef4?lnk=st&q=%22experimental+software%22+group:alt.free.newsservers+insubject:beta+insubject:server+author:YottaNews&rnum=1&hl=en#a91091734ab2bef4>
He begins:
/*
I would like to test it with as many clients as possible. It does
not have, nor do I have any plans on adding, support for non
standard commands like xpat, xhdr, etc... If you send it a
non-standard command it will just disconnect you. It should support
any RFC977 command with the exception of newnews. It does support
the xover/list overview.fmt extensions...
*/
When asked why no XHDR?
/*
It's stupid. It's like zipping an mpeg movie to "compress" it.
I'll explain a little better. The clients that use it are claiming
it allows them to download the headers more efficiently. In reality
it's a very inefficient method of obtaining overview/header/xover
data. All of the brain dead clients that I've seen try to use it
actually download nearly the same amount of data as using the XOVER
command and burn up 50-100 times the CPU cycles doing it...
*/
Anyway there are technical problems with beta server...
/*
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:42:45 +0000, old timer wrote:
> I don't know all the tech stuff but I know it lists every group as
> having over 8 million headers when using Xnews.
Yes, it will. It's a side effect. Any client that estimates the
number of articles by subtracting the high - low will get the wrong
number. There are 8 million articles, just not in that group. :)
When you download the headers you should get the real number.
*/
etc, etc etc,
An interesting read.
--
dee
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