[Teammetrics-discuss] Never ending nntpstat problems

[Sukhbir Singh]

> It is *definitely* the best approach.  I noticed in several cases that
> you tend to keep a lot in memory what in principle is data ready for

I admit that that is correct, but I don't know why I do it. After you
had pointed out, I had stopped following this approach.

> You do not need to care about I/O activity yourself!  That's the job of
> your operating system which will cache writing anyway (if you do not
> explicitely call fflush - well, that's C, but there will be a similar
> Python command).  So just write any data that can be written once you
> see no need for changing them any more.

That's right, but in this case I thought that it would involve
repeated disk writes for each message and hence I avoided this
approach.

I will fix it.