[leafnode-list] Re: Fetchnews process takes very long

[Whiskers]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:31:51 +0200 "Torsten Bronger"
<bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de>   wrote:

> 
> Hallöchen!
> 
> I run fetchnews as a cron job every 10 minutes.  Every other hour or
> so, it takes *much* longer than usual (15 minutes instead of approx
> 40 seconds).  I suspect that it does some sort of database cleanup
> at this time.

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Have you got a cron job running fetchnews -f at that interval?  (That 
command will rebuild the list of available groups from the upstream servers 
- normally, Leafnode will do this only every 90 days).

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