I'm running leafnode on a Sparc 5 with NetBSD 1.4.2.

It's very slow on startup, and when posting or checking .newsrc from trn.
By slow I mean it can take 10 to 30 seconds to get started, and when
trn checks .newsrc, it can be 15 minutes before leafnode goes through
the active groups.

A trace shows that leafnode is reading through it's active file each time it
starts up.  I don't believe that should be a problem, even on a machine like
this.  It's not a speed demon, but I've run nntp on one before and it wasn't
this bad.

I don't really know why trn insists on so many checks, especially when I've
turned them off and always trim my .newsrc file of inactive groups.

Is anyone else running leafnode on a similar machine that can comment on the
speed of news service?

My primary clients are trn and slrn, and I usually access the machine
remotely.  I've been browsing the sources, but so far I'm not familar
enough to even guess how to speed things up.

If anyone has a better recommendation for this type of machine, I'd be
interested in some notes about that.

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