Re: Nntp inefficiencies

[Yair Friedman <yfriedma@JohnBryce.Co.Il>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> In the special case you described, getting the number right is
> trivial, but it's a fairly unusual situation.  
> 

So can you plase describe the usual situation?

When our server had NOV problems (Strange Line etc.) I edebuged some of
the code to understand what commands are issued and what is the strange
response.  I found out that gnus issus XOVER command for a a very long
and as seems to me unneeded range (Usually 1-MAX).

It happend to me before that there was only 1 unread article in a group
(This number was correctly displayed in the article count though), gnus
spent a lot of time reading 3M of something (nov headers?) to show me a
3 lined article.

There is some confusion regarding the sequences and ranges of nntp.
Maybe it just me confused, but I suspect that the wrong ranges are used
sometimes.

Lars, can you please put some more information regarding this?

--
Yair.