Thoth - slow, will Sonnet upgrade help?

[Dan Cottler]

In article <TD-30EF3A.13463514092003@central.giganews.com>,
TD <TD@td44.td.invalid> wrote:

> Thoth is really slow on my 7200 and takes a really long time to
> decode binaries and transfer binaries into the queue, much longer
> than MT Newswatcher. How much of an improvement will a Sonnet G3
> upgrade for the 7200 provide? Will it significantly decrease the
> decoding time and the time to transfer binaries to the queue? I
> already have an IDE drive upgrade so I know that's not the
> bottleneck.

Thoth is, in general, a bit slower than MT-NewsWatcher, especially for
text-based article surfing. But then again, I see you're using MT-NW
3.1 - which doesn't support yEnc... So Thoth is also doing more for you.

A faster CPU will help. A better help tho, is to dump Thoth's cache
files periodically and perhaps disable parts caching altogether. This
also has the side effect of making Thoth a bit more stable.

It's still a very crashy app tho...

FWIW,
- Dan.
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- South Jersey, USA, Earth

[Elliott Roper]

In article <bka3jj$r0crr$2@ID-124490.news.uni-berlin.de>, Dan Cottler
<darmok@punkass.com> wrote:

> In article <TD-30EF3A.13463514092003@central.giganews.com>,
> TD <TD@td44.td.invalid> wrote:
>

> > Thoth is really slow on my 7200 and takes a really long time to
> > decode binaries and transfer binaries into the queue, much longer
> > than MT Newswatcher. How much of an improvement will a Sonnet G3
> > upgrade for the 7200 provide? Will it significantly decrease the
> > decoding time and the time to transfer binaries to the queue? I
> > already have an IDE drive upgrade so I know that's not the
> > bottleneck.

>
> Thoth is, in general, a bit slower than MT-NewsWatcher, especially for
> text-based article surfing. But then again, I see you're using MT-NW
> 3.1 - which doesn't support yEnc... So Thoth is also doing more for you.
>
> A faster CPU will help. A better help tho, is to dump Thoth's cache
> files periodically and perhaps disable parts caching altogether. This
> also has the side effect of making Thoth a bit more stable.
>
> It's still a very crashy app tho...

Not round here it ain't. Never crashed that I recall. Decently fast
too, even on a Pismo. Only glitch is that it sometimes cancels logout
without any obvious reason. It does binaries really quickly, and
nicely, except for all the temporary files it leaves in trash.

[Elliott Roper]

In article <e5eab895386f8e501c73f93b6e47754b@news.onlynews.co m>, jc
<toneguru_uk@see-sig.invalid> wrote:

> Elliott Roper <elliott@yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> > It does binaries really quickly, and
> > nicely, except for all the temporary files it leaves in trash.

>
> Thoth will automatically delete those temp files if you go to: Edit>
> Preferences> Miscellaneous and check the box marked: Delete "Trashed"
> Files.

Thanks John. Works a treat. Dunno how many time I looked for that. Doh!

[Jerry Kindall]

In article <TD-30EF3A.13463514092003@central.giganews.com>, TD
<TD@td44.td.invalid> wrote:

> Thoth is really slow on my 7200 and takes a really long time to decode
> binaries and transfer binaries into the queue, much longer than MT
> Newswatcher. How much of an improvement will a Sonnet G3 upgrade for the
> 7200 provide? Will it significantly decrease the decoding time and the
> time to transfer binaries to the queue? I already have an IDE drive
> upgrade so I know that's not the bottleneck.

Man, buying a processor card for a better Usenet experience... now
that's hardcore!

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