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List:       kde-nonlinux
Subject:    Re: [Kde-nonlinux] Fwd: knewsticker help please
From:       akar <akar () optusnet ! com ! au>
Date:       2002-03-11 17:49:00
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 01:19, Frerich Raabe wrote:
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A little common sense is required; if you choose to poll 30 sites with 10 
items each what do you expect. Pick just a few sites with 3 or 4 items each.

 Kde will open a slave for each site but they are only getting a small amount 
of information and each slave only uses a few hundred K of memory so it 
should not be crashing your system. Millions use it everyday with dialup 
connections with no problems.
The slaves will hang around a while to see if anyone else wants them and then 
they will terminate after their timeout. The only prob I see is if people set 
their poll time so low that the slaves never time out. It is pointless to 
poll sites every 5 or 10 minutes if their articles are lucky to change every 
few hours (or days)

The only change I would make is to only allow a few slaves and let them go to 
the next site when they have finished one; ie to queue the sites but most 
people are to impatient for this.

As for the script you will see in tickers config that it can read apps on 
stdout as well as rdf files so just do a simple shell script that reads site 
after site and merges the files and let ticker read that; You wont have any 
slaves then just one low bandwidth stream for a while.

andrew

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