If you ask for an ARTICLE (or a HEAD/BODY and possibly other commands
more than 100 times), INN sleeps for a second before sending anything.
It sleeps each time you ask for an ARTICLE, but only sleeps on HEAD/BODY
commands if you've asked for them more than 100 times.
The ISP can toggle this with the LIKE_PULLERS flag in config.data and
recompile INN.
I believe VSoup will use the HEAD/BODY commands if you have a kill file,
otherwise it uses the ARTICLE command. I don't know about Souper.
See news.software.nntp for more on INN, or grep nnrpd/article.c for
DONT_LIKE_PULLERS to see the problem.
Kermit Roger (KR) Lund wrote:
>
> Since my ISP installed a new news server, the time it takes to
> retrieve new posts and mail seems much longer. I must admit that
> I never measured the time required in the past. I'm curious about
> what others observe.
>
> I measure the elapsed time that uqwk runs. (from uqwk start
> until the compression starts and divide that into the
> uncompressed size of news/mail. I get about 2.2K/sec. I had to
> manually unzip the compressed file that was downloaded to get the
> size.
>
> Does anyone have any comparative information?
> Thanks
> krl
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