At 04:33 PM 2/8/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Is it possible to have a transit server on the fly. What i want is to have
>DNEWS retransmit a incoming feed without writing it to disk. And if
>possible, to more than one box.
No, the live feed module was built around this idea but in practice
it never proved very useful or efficient, as soon as there is the sligtest
delay
on any destination server you either eat ram or throw items away flat out.
Then you have to resend large amounts of news and that ends up less efficient
than just sending the news sequentially using dfeed (which is fast as the disk
reads are contiguous)
If you use dfeed and just keep a small spool, it gives you a buffer
and it will send out as many feeds as a transit server would do and it
is actually more efficient and less likely to break multiple item posts.
Well thats my opinion anyway :-)
ChrisP.
