At 07:54 AM 2/13/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks for all the help, everything seems to be running fine. I just two more
>questions.
>
>I have all groups set as header groups and stream sucking turned on. The speed at
>which DNews is pulling headers from the feed seems very slow, much slower then if I
>were to point my Newsbin client directly at the feed and tell it to get headers. I
>would have expected DNews to pull the headers just as fast. Perhaps there are some
>settings I might be missing? I have head_cache set to 3000 and header_chan_n set to
>10.
your news client probably fetches xover records, dnews is fetching
full headers, and the server you are talking to probably uses an
xover index which makes xover responses much faster.
>DNews also does not seem to be automaticly marking a group as cached when it is read.
>I thought that DNews would continue to get headers for a group on every update for
>the number of days specified by LIFE.
Try setting in dnews.conf
cache_ongroup true
chrisP.
