Re: [leafnode-list] 2.0b8_ma3 leafnode very slow

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Its so slow that its almost useless.
> 
> It took about 10 minutes to read about 400k according to gnus which is
> what I am using to read the news.
> 
> The official 2.08b was much much faster.

Well, I looked again, after my initial reply, and found that on my
machine, leafnode was operating in line-buffered mode, for whatever
reason (it did not request that). 

I changed it, my leafnode is currently setting fully-buffered mode and
it's /slightly/ faster here, but depending on (possibly broken) network
stacks and network cards, the speed improvement by buffering XOVER
replies (which is what gnus shows when you're entering a group) might be
significant.

Short: "It depends".

I'll not release 2.0b8_ma5 for just this change, but 2.0b8_ma5 will
incorporate this.

Grab 2.0b8_ma4, use your favourite text editor on nntpd.c and insert
these lines (without the "----"-bars) after the declarations in main:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
    const long bufsize = BLOCKSIZE;
    char *buf = critmalloc(bufsize, "main_loop");
    
    /* set buffer */
    fflush(stdout);
    setvbuf(stdout, buf, _IOFBF, bufsize);
----------------------------------------------------------------------

If you don't know what this is about, here's a detailed HOWTO:


search for main(int (at line 1991), and change this:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int option, reply, err;
    socklen_t fodder;
    char conffile[PATH_MAX+1];
    char peername[256];
    struct hostent *he;
    FILE *se;

#ifdef HAVE_IPV6
----------------------------------------------------------------------

by inserting lines between FILE * and #ifdef to (do not insert the
-------- -bars):

----------------------------------------------------------------------
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int option, reply, err;
    socklen_t fodder;
    char conffile[PATH_MAX+1];
    char peername[256];
    struct hostent *he;
    FILE *se;
    const long bufsize = BLOCKSIZE;
    char *buf = critmalloc(bufsize, "main_loop");
    
    /* set buffer */
    fflush(stdout);
    setvbuf(stdout, buf, _IOFBF, bufsize);

#ifdef HAVE_IPV6
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The new lines shown above are identical, you can just cut them and
insert them.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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