> > I don't understand, its Xref line should always be the same as the one > > obtained from the remote server. > > Which is one of several reasons some *intelligent* newsreaders have > problems with nntpcache... It should *NOT* forward the original Xref line > unchanged. I agree that Xref handling could be improved... > And the performance I'm talking is not just that it doesn't have the > information available and have to go and get it, that wouldn't explain why > either 'list active' or 'list active <newsgroup>' takes 20-100 times as > long as the new INN 1.5.1 server on the same machine, especially not if > you did exactly the same operation 1 minute ago!! ... but this one I have a problem understanding. Either of these commands are usually instantaneous against my nntpcache servers. If it's been too long since the active file was fetched from a downstream server, it will be fetched again, and this will of course take some time. But this is the exception, not the rule. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
