Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:56:30 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups? Message-ID: <CADGWnjVsA6k1waWYbPSXB6zsBOBTk5orgifMhh39yCogNEOXyA@mail.gmail.com>
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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/
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