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- Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:46 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Severe slowdown
- Replies: 14
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- Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:12 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Severe slowdown
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12085
I am using windows 2000. It's more about how windows handles accessing directories with many files. In the database folder, I have over 34,000 files, apparently one for each header, plus a few large ones that I can't figure out. I used to use agent, and that only created two files for each newsgroup...
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:38 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Severe slowdown
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12085
In my case, the download speed seems to be fast, at least according to NewsPro's task manager (usually around 500KB and up), CPU usage is minimal, as is RAM usage. It's the HD access that's killing things. Even when I'm finally able to tell NP to exit, it takes several minutes of disk activity befor...
- Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:23 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Severe slowdown
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12085
Severe slowdown
I posted a message about this yesterday but can't find that thread now. Anyway, a few people have noticed that NewsPro gets very slow once it's downloaded a few thousand headers. Here's my experience today. Last night I set it to get headers for three newsgroups (in a folder), and to download messag...