INN FAQ Speed up NNTP Transfers ("Streaming NNTP")

INN FAQ Part 6

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Subject: (6.25) Speed up NNTP Transfers ("Streaming NNTP")
Normal NNTP uses the following scheme to transfer articles: Sender Receiver ---> Ihave <some Message> Ok send it to me <--- ---> sends the actual message Says 'this was ok' <--- This procedure uses 2RTT on the link (rtt = round trip time) plus time for the actual article transfer. Jerry Aguirre has rewritten NNTP code so that it now sends a list of message ids to remote which checks it and returns a value if it is to be sent. With each message sent Streaming NNTP also sends a new message-id to check so that the flow of news keeps streaming. Advantages of Streaming NNTP are - Fast even on lines with a high rtt (e.g. satellite links) - faster than normal nntp - compatible as innxmit has a autofallback to normal nntp Disadvantages are - INN gets more compute intensive - Streaming NNTP can fill a 64kB line that much that working over it via telnet gets a real pain. ------------------------------ [Source:* INN FAQ Part 6 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part6] [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/07/01 01:25:41 $ $Revision: 2.21 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]

Subject: (6.25) Speed up NNTP Transfers ("Streaming NNTP")

Normal NNTP uses the following scheme to transfer articles:

Sender                    Receiver
  ---> Ihave <some Message>
   Ok send it to me       <---
  --->  sends the actual message 
   Says 'this was ok'    <---

This procedure uses 2*RTT on the link (rtt = round trip time) plus time
for the actual article transfer. Jerry Aguirre has rewritten NNTP code
so that it now sends a list of message ids to remote which checks it and
returns a value if it is to be sent. With each message sent Streaming NNTP
also sends a new message-id to check so that the flow of news keeps
streaming.

Advantages of Streaming NNTP are
- Fast even on lines with a high rtt (e.g. satellite links)
- faster than normal nntp
- compatible as innxmit has a autofallback to normal nntp

Disadvantages are
- INN gets more compute intensive
- Streaming NNTP can fill a 64kB line that much that working
over it via telnet gets a real pain.

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[Source: INN FAQ Part 6 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part6]
[Last Changed: $Date: 1997/07/01 01:25:41 $ $Revision: 2.21 $]
[Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]