On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > And takes 488 minutes on a PII-400Mhz with ~396Meg of RAM on her...
> >
> > That number is with 3.11/Unix...just installed and am running 3.3 right
> > now, to see how it fairs, but is there any way of speeding that up? 6+hrs
> > sounds a little excessive, no? :(
>
> In my experience (admittedly quite short) with Analog, by far the worst
> time sink is the DNS lookup. If you use "DNS WRITE", your next Analog
> run ought to be quite a bit faster :-)
I do use it :( It helped, but still 6hrs...
Is analog smart enough to cache the 'dnsfile' to memory before it even
starts, or does it look up each entry, one at a time? maybe the next
'step' is to have it so that it does like news, where it creates a .db
file that gets looked up in vs the text file?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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