Hi, answering my own post I made a setting in .slrnrc % If 0, save all groups when writing newsrc file % if 1, do not save any unsubscribed groups % if 2, do not save any unread-unsubscribed groups set write_newsrc_flags 1
which has dramatically improved matters. My .jnewsrc now only shows the groups to which I am subscribed and is a few hundred bytes in size. Action is instantaneous on all fronts. Now, however, capital L will not bring up any new groups! You can't win them all. Now I wanted to check that .readers group and see what those guys would say.......... Ian On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 09:50:19PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a low-spec machine comprising a Cyrix 120 processor, > 120 Mb ram, ample hdd and swap space. It is running potatoe in > console mode. > > Having got the setup going with help from this group, i find that my > hdd is being continually thrashed when in slrn. This us being used > on a ppp dialup to my isp and so am set to retrieve headers only > when i first dial in, and then a later dialup should retrieve bodies > of selected messages for offline perusal. > > I am subscribed to a dozen non-heavy groups (comp.databases.paradox > and uk.adverts.books are typical) > > In fact, the set up is nigh unuseable as the response time is so > slow, it is a wait everytime that you want to read a new post or > change to a new group. > > Every single action is accompanied by waits of many seconds and hdd > activity. To select a group, to enter a group, to select a post, to > open that post, is cumulatively time consuming. It takes over 30 > seconds to close a post, move to the adjacent group, select and open > another post. > > In answer to Glynn, I see only the groups selected when i open up > slrn. I did not have a .slrnrc but have now copied over the one > from /slrn/examples and there is no difference. The leafnode config > is also bog-standard. I can forward these if no one has any bright > idea. I have nothing else running to consume resources. > > my .jnewsrc is all but 1Mb in size, with my subscribed groups at the > top followed by 40000 groups from zippo. to a.bsu. as downloaded > from my local server. > > There are times when it seems to be ok, i can arrow down half a > dozen posts but then it sticks and it is back to waiting 10 seconds > to move down one group. > > Surely there must be something wrong? top shows slrn consuming 20% > of CPU and 40% of memory just to change groups. > > -- > Ian Balchin > http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables > This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
