From: Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>
To: gmane-discuss@hawk.netfonds.no
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Slow Access from Gnus
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:18:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76ve2xe8ep.fsf@dev-d01.ppllc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v94pah4i6u.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
>>>>> "RS" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
RS> On Fri, Apr 04 2008, Jake Colman wrote:
>> 20080404T131502.278 news.gmane.org GROUP gmane.emacs.gnus.general
>> 20080404T131502.400 news.gmane.org XOVER 1-66679
>> 20080404T131611.177 free.teranews.com GROUP comp.emacs
>> 20080404T131611.296 free.teranews.com XOVER 1-69787
>>
>> Yes, it appears that for every gmane group it actually rereads the
>> entire "active file" (do I know what I'm talkig about?) or something.
RS> Gnus fetches the whole NOV (overview) data if
RS> `gnus-fetch-old-headers' is t. Try setting it to some number,
RS> say 100. Does it help?
RS> Then you should see something like this in the *nntp-log* buffer:
RS> [DATE...] news.gmane.org XOVER 66578-66679
RS> (See the function `nntp-retrieve-headers-with-xover')
RS> In contrast to "normal" news servers, Gmane doesn't expire
RS> articles so the overview might become really large.
WOW! What a difference! My prior setting for 'gnus-fetch-old-headers'
was t. I set it to 500 and I now enter the group virtually
instantaneously. Is there any practical downside to specifying a number
instead of 't'? What setting do _you_ use?
--
Jake Colman
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2008-04-04 15:19 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-04 17:21 ` Jake Colman
2008-04-04 17:56 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-04 19:18 ` Jake Colman [this message]
2008-04-04 19:54 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-04 20:07 ` Sven Joachim
2008-05-24 13:09 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-06 18:03 ` Jake Colman
2008-04-06 20:23 ` Reiner Steib
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