Re: Any way to mitigate slowdown caused by scoring on article headers?

Peter J Ross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 09 May 2008 14:42:00 Grant Edwards wrote:
> I recently started scoring articles on header fields other than
> subject, and it's causing about a 100X slowdown when I enter a
> group.  Previously (scoring only on subject headers), a single
> XOVER command grabbed all of the info needed. Now slrn sends
> commands to fetch headers for each article.  I don't suppose
> there's anything I can do to mitigate the problem? (Without
> letting in the flood of spam from google groups.)

If you're scoring on a lot of headers that aren't in your news server's 
overview database, try using the prefer_head variable. 

See <http://www.slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.79>
or <http://pjr.lasnobberia.net/slrn-doc/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.74>

-- 
PJR :-)
<http://pjr.lasnobberia.net/slrn-doc/>

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