Re: news.postgresql.org slow - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: news.postgresql.org slow
Date
Msg-id 20051203153249.M1077@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to news.postgresql.org slow  (stig erikson <stigerikson_nospam_@yahoo.se>)
Responses Re: news.postgresql.org slow
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On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, stig erikson wrote:

> Hi.
> this might not be the correct place to ask but i see not better place.
>
> i use the news server news.postgresql.org. every now and then i go offline
> and i usually do a offline synchronization before (download every message,
> head + body).
>
> the news.postgresql.org server seems to have some speed limit that only
> allows the receiver (my news reader) to fetch ~2 messages per second.
> this is painfully slow.
> would it be possible for the server holder to change this limit (if such a
> limit is in place) to allow, say, twice as many bodies to be transmitted per
> second?
>
> it is not a bandwidth problem at my end (but could of course be something
> else at my end), i don't see this problem with other news servers though.

There are no limits imposed on the news server, but you might want to try
news.fr.postgresql.org, which might be a closer server for you ...

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