From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 14:56:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23E0C08 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B438FC12 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so684435iea.13 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=U0UiiuhzVprteOagCHsAINg021b0HHZzmG6kCNfS+s0=; b=DAS8zuOSzJl1VLTf5yIf4hg0kQy/WWXI/9pOfeDYwlOrOYLBdgr/8JWCgncAn31o3a oseVZvNIxBiOBoYT/tXDBKT9pxSoyZ2SVrauZ+n6Kz7EpfNd1G8+ZbN5Cyid6LDy5xMo fWgCTHdF5qLcAJK2a2hB9rUGD910Vm9Bgasj5PmWJ1CtgsG2HS1LHW5TeaG7a9kGKt0K yONytd65hKIyyXuwCJ2WwFJ6f5tEQuGPbh0o+8XaAAodw9hs1XPLoUfFYm5NPaF5NvWh WU+YqNNQimf8s1uqC9BZ/dTJ/tSkljl6RNewcR/pK/LNP/xj3zBsRXERyx+9nJaIARFh 8lrQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.106.69 with SMTP id dt5mr28916340icc.49.1351608990152; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.49.67 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.170.37] Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:56:30 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups? From: "C. P. Ghost" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnvrLQEyeaP1JYSdnwjAjPxMilBlujvb8HEcxq943kartM6fDDqu9tEAnQwoVxZid8tSWoE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:56:33 -0000 Hello, I'm looking for an NNTP newsreader that can gracefully handle newsgroups with a *huge* number of posts, if possible with a moderate memory and CPU footprint. My newsreader of choice, news/tin, while quite good for newsgroups with a moderate number of articles can't cope with some alt.binaries.* groups that contain over 2,000,000+ active/unread articles. It effectively thrashes the system and consumes enormous amounts of swap space and CPU cycles just for opening such a newsgroup. It also takes ages to update the local index as well, because it keeps fetching headers for articles that don't even exist or should have been skipped, according to ~/.newsrc If you wonder about such huge newsgroups: they are increasingly common now that commercial NNTP providers are over 1,000+ retention days for binaries, and some of those newsgroups are being flooded with crap in an attempt to DoS them. What NNTP newsreader are you using? Which one would you recommend for those huge newsgroups? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/