From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 15:07:23 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 5ACDA161 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:07:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be (mxin.ulb.ac.be [164.15.128.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BA78FC08 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:07:21 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArcBAEnsj1CkD30E/2dsb2JhbAANN4YYhV+6dwEBAQQjVRELGAkWCwICCQMCAQIBRRMIAQEWsTdugjuHNYkIi3eDOYIRgRMDjnWBIYZ5hDyNXA Received: from bebif01.ulb.ac.be (HELO [10.0.0.194]) ([164.15.125.4]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2012 16:06:12 +0100 Message-ID: <508FECE4.9040408@ulb.ac.be> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:06:12 +0100 From: Julien Cigar Organization: Belgian Biodiversity Platform User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120503 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000202040404040009010803" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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 15:07:23 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000202040404040009010803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit slrn ? http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ On 10/30/2012 15:56, C. P. Ghost wrote: > 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. > -- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. --------------000202040404040009010803--