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Re: Really slow startup



>David Given wrote:
>
>> When I run `fetch', my system connects normally and then spends, usually, 45 
>> minutes at `Getting new newsgroups'. While this is happening the link 
>> utilisation is pretty high. I have a feeling that it's downloading the entire 
>> newsgroup list over our company ISDN link.
>> 
>> I assume this shouldn't be happening; I've tried setting nodesc=1, but it 
>> doesn't seem to help. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get round this?
>
>Can you provide a debug log? As you said, "nodesc = 1" should prevent
>this, and I would be very interested if it doesn't.

Here it is, or at least the top of it:

Mar 15 12:47:50 pearl fetch[11828]: 1.9: verbosity level is 3
Mar 15 12:47:50 pearl fetch[11828]: config: server is news.demon.co.uk
Mar 15 12:47:50 pearl last message repeated 2 times
Mar 15 12:47:50 pearl fetch[11828]: config: debugmode is 1
Mar 15 12:47:51 pearl fetch[11828]: Last LIST ACTIVE done 1789288 seconds ago: 
N
EWGROUPS 
Mar 15 12:47:52 pearl fetch[11828]: <200 news.demon.co.uk NewsBorg [nnrp-08] 
Mar 15 12:47:52 pearl fetch[11828]: connected to 158.152.254.72: 200
Mar 15 12:47:52 pearl fetch[11828]: >MODE READER^M 
Mar 15 12:47:52 pearl fetch[11828]: <200 news.demon.co.uk NewsBorg [nnrp-08] 
Mar 15 12:47:52 pearl fetch[11828]: >NEWGROUPS 990315 080000 GMT^M 
Mar 15 12:47:52 pearl fetch[11828]: <231 new groups since Mon, 15 Mar 1999 
08:00
:00 GMT 
Mar 15 12:47:53 pearl fetch[11828]: <alt.binaries.sounds.midi.classical.sequenc
i
ng 0000000000 0000000001 y 
Mar 15 12:47:53 pearl fetch[11828]: <. 
Mar 15 12:47:53 pearl fetch[11828]: >XGTITLE alt.binaries.sounds.midi.classical