Re: suck is so slow
> On 15 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am
> not satisfied with the speed this download takes place.
>
Upgrade to the latest suck-3.5.1-1 which includes some changes
speeding up the transfer rate. From "/usr/doc/suck/changelog.gz":
---------------bite-here----------------------------------------------------
- get_one_article() - added code to do pipelining, that is send the command
to get one article ahead, so that while we are reading one article,
the next one is being fetched by the server. Changed rename() to
move_file().
---------------bite-here----------------------------------------------------
Package: suck
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: news
Installed-Size: 145
Maintainer: Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>
Version: 3.5.1-1
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Suggests: news-transport-system, news-reader
Conffiles:
/etc/suck/get-news.conf cf51d8e86f056bf5dc096c9aec9be25f
/etc/suck/suckkillfile b0008290acc6ad4045cb4d1ec9b1c455
/etc/suck/sucknewsrc bce670cd8a6b1754fa2b325157e35572
Description: Small newsfeed from an NNTP server with standard NNTP commands.
This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP
server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to
an NNTP server.
[...]
Cheers, P. *8^)
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