How to speed up uucp with Telebits(only getting 800 chars/sec )

Bill Canning billc at wupulm.wustl.EDU
Tue Jul 11 03:04:18 AEST 1989


In article <240 at sopwith.UUCP> snoopy at sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <3175 at csccat.UUCP> jack at csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler) writes:
>
>|	Think about, some computer (mine) can't take
>|	having 9600 baud shoved down it's throat and unbatch news
>|	at the same time. :-)
>
>A quick and dirty way to keep news unbatching from dragging down uucp
>throughput is to set up a shell script rnews which invokes the real
>rnews niced down to 20....

News2.11 can be configured to automatically do a nice on rnews for you, and
the niceness is configurable.  The #define is in defs.h. This is a little
more elegant solution.

I hope this helps,
Bill Canning
billc%wupulm at wupost.wustl.EDU



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