XFOR: INS: NNTPBLD Takes Too Long to Rebuild a Server

RESOLUTION

New Switches

-x      If this switch is specified, nntpbld will avoid rebuilding the XIX
        index files. Currently, nntpbld deletes all XIX files in its first
        pass through the news tree and then rebuilds them while scanning
        NWS articles. Because XIX files are almost as stable as NWS files,
        in most cases it makes sense to not delete and rebuild them. This
        saves the overhead of lots of WriteFile() calls.

        NOTE: This switch should be used when it is reasonably certain
that
        Only the hash tables are corrupted. The safest course of action,
if
        the extent of the corruption is not known, is to not use this
        switch.

-w n    Where n is the number of threads to use. The maximum number of
        threads is 64. Using 0 for the value of n results in the number of
        threads being 2 times the number of processors.