is gnus-read-active-file broken in rgnus?

is gnus-read-active-file broken in rgnus?

[Michael Harnois]

I'm the kind who's too stupid to leave well enough alone, so once I
had gnus up and running I decided to download Red Gnus. I hate to
sound ignorant, but is it possible that setting gnus-read-active-file
to 'some' no longer works? If I set it that way under rgnus, the
entire active file gets read whenever I startup or check new news. If
I set it to nil, everything works the way it used to.

Re: is gnus-read-active-file broken in rgnus?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> I'm the kind who's too stupid to leave well enough alone, so once I
> had gnus up and running I decided to download Red Gnus. I hate to
> sound ignorant, but is it possible that setting gnus-read-active-file
> to 'some' no longer works?

Yup.  This is probably fixed in Red 0.12, though.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: is gnus-read-active-file broken in rgnus?

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

Michael> ... is it possible that setting gnus-read-active-file to
Michael> 'some' no longer works?

Lars> Yup.  This is probably fixed in Red 0.12, though.

This probably explains the massive slow down I've seen in all the Red
Gnus versions I've tried.  With gnus-read-active-file set to 'some,
0.12 loops on a failed select when reading the active file:

 ...
select(256, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(256, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
ioctl(7, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
ioctl(7, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({840317876, 802846}, NULL) = 0
select(9, [4 7 8], [], [], {0, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({840317876, 829585}, {480, 1}) = 0
gettimeofday({840317876, 831423}, {480, 1}) = 0
gettimeofday({840317876, 833243}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(7, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
ioctl(7, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({840317876, 838642}, NULL) = 0
select(9, [4 7 8], [], [], {0, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({840317876, 842888}, NULL) = 0
select(9, [4 8], [], [], {0, 0})        = 0 (Timeout)
ioctl(7, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
ioctl(7, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({840317876, 850704}, NULL) = 0
select(9, [4 7 8], [], [], {0, 980539}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({840317877, 851542}, NULL) = 0
select(256, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(256, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
 ...

-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.
Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone
except you in November.

Re: is gnus-read-active-file broken in rgnus?

[Michael Harnois]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:
> 
> Michael> ... is it possible that setting gnus-read-active-file to
> Michael> 'some' no longer works?
> 
> Lars> Yup.  This is probably fixed in Red 0.12, though.
> 
> This probably explains the massive slow down I've seen in all the Red
> Gnus versions I've tried.  With gnus-read-active-file set to 'some,
> 0.12 loops on a failed select when reading the active file:

Hey, so *that's* what happened when I tried in under 0.12 ... thanks
for the explanation ...

Lars, did this note get to you in time for 0.13, or should we wait
until 0.14 to try 'some' again?

-- 
+ Michael D. Harnois              + Christianity has not been tried +
+ Clergy, computer nerd, Linux    + and found wanting. It has been  +
+ user, Havanese owner            + found difficult and not tried.  + 
+ mharnois@sbt.net                +          --G. K. Chesterton     +

Re: is gnus-read-active-file broken in rgnus?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> Lars, did this note get to you in time for 0.13, or should we wait
> until 0.14 to try 'some' again?

Wait until 0.14.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."