nospam@nospam wrote:
> Test Configuration:
>
> Build ID: 2000120404 from the trunk (commercial).
> Platform: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Service Pack 6
> Hardware: Dell Precision 220, 128 megs of RAM, Pentium III at 733 mhz.
> Network connection to test server (news.netscape.com) 345k/second.
> Software tested against: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and Netscape
> Navigator 4.76.
>
> Performance test steps:
>
> Create news accounts for both Outlook Express and Netscape 6.
> Subscribe to the news.netscape.com server, and get a list. (I'm not
> testing for 1st time subscription in this case).
> Once you have subscribed, hit "Refresh" in Mozilla/Netscape 6 and note
> the time it takes to populate the newsgroup pane.
> Do the same for Outlook Express, using "Reset List".
>
> Results:
>
> Outlook Express populated the list in 7 seconds.
> Netscape 6 populated the list in 5 seconds.
> Netscape 4.76 took 8 seconds.
Please, I'd be interested in seeing results to this test with a news
server that has a more normal (i.e considerably more) number of newsgroups.
Under the old configuration (before Seth put in the fix) I could easily
"populate" the Subscription dialog for all the newsgroups on the
Netscape server. However, I could not come any where close to doing the
same for my own ISP's NNTP server. I'd be interested in comparitive
results for your average ISP's NNTP server.
Regards to you all,
David.
