Subject: Slower in Linux than in Windows

From: "Martin B. Brilliant" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 21:51:00 -0700

I'm running Pine three different ways, all using a 14.4 kb/s modem in an
am5x86/133 PC with 16 MB of RAM. 

I can dial up to login to my ISP's UNIX shell and run Pine on my ISP's
system to access mail and news in my ISP's network. My PC is overkill for
that purpose, and Pine is running on an even faster machine. It's fast and
efficient. 

I downloaded PC-Pine for Windows a few days ago, and I'm using it on a
dial-up PPP connection to access my inbox on my ISP's system. The overhead
slows it down a bit. I start PC-Pine and the Winsock sets up the PPP link.
Five seconds after the noise from the modem stops, the Winsock window
closes, and ten seconds later Pine gives me a login prompt. I'm using
PC-Pine right now to write this message. It took 4 minutes to fetch the
list of newsgroups when I asked it to subscribe to comp.mail.pine, and it
took another 4 minutes to validate the newsgroups when I said I wanted to
compose a message to comp.mail.pine, but the editor is now running OK. 

Pine 3.91 came with the Slackware Linux distribution that I found on
tsx-11.mit.edu. I run pppd to set up a PPP link, and then invoke Pine. It
takes fully 36 seconds for Pine to give me a login prompt. It took 4
minutes to subscribe to comp.mail.linux, without having to fetch the
newsgroup list because it was already there. When I said I wanted to
compose a message, it took 4 minutes for Pico to respond to my down-arrows
to get me out of the Newsgrps line so I could enter the Subject. When I
accidentally up-arrowed to the Newsgrps line again, it took another 4
minutes to get out.

My question is: is this (a) just the difference between PC-Pine and Pine
3.91, (b) an error in my Linux configuration, or (c) something wrong with
my ISP's configuration? 

						Marty
Martin B. Brilliant at home in Holmdel, NJ

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 23:38:30 -0700 (PDT)

Martin,
Be sure to set "news-post-without-validation".
That won't speed up the subscription process, but it should help when
composing...

-teg