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Re: [leafnode-list] Bandwidth limiter for fetch downloads?
> sss@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Thats pretty odd. you must be with a wimpy ISP or you are grabbing from a
> > news server across the net' somewhere.
>
> No. That's normal when you fetch news from non-binary newsgroups because
> fetch must do quite some work inbetween, like parsing headers etc. At
> the moment fetch is still written in a way that it sends a command, waits
> for the answer from the server and sends the next command. This makes
> it unnecessarily slow. The next major update (not 1.9.3) will hopefully
> fix that.
>
> I think that sss@xxxxxxxxxxx fetches a lot of binary groups or groups with
> very long message bodies. In this case, fetch will spend most of its time
> writing bodies to disk. This is not very CPU-intensive, so the suggestions
> made in this thread (like renicing fetch, etc.) won't help.
>
> No, I can't offer anything better.
>
> --Cornelius.
Cornelius,
OK, that makes sense now. I actually am running leafnode on my server,
chez.dyn.tj, and I am about 50/50 balance between binary and text content.
I do notice the bandwidth being lower when it is processing smaller
articles. As you say, the methods discussed here will not work, yes.
I also understand that what is involved is way beyond the scope of
leafnode.
The only way I can see to solve this is to setup a dedicated linux server
on a LAN and utilize the Linux Bandwidth management features becoming
available in the 2.2 kernels. Ill start to look into that. :) Or get
access to a heavily loaded news server....
Thanks
- Stefan
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