Re: Agent gone mad?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org> writes:

> After updating my Gnus the agent wants to download many megs of long
> since read ande marked as expirable articles and headers.  Is this an
> intended change?  How do I prevent it?

I have observed the problem that Gnus tries to fetch nonexisting
articles.  I observed it when gnus-agent-consider-all-articles was
true, I don't know if it also happens when it is false.

Anyhow, I've now changed gnus-agent.el so that it doesn't try to
fetch nonexisting articles anymore.  This speeds up my session fetch
a lot.

But I do still observe that Gnus tries to fetch a lot of headers from
the groups.  I'm not sure where that comes from.  Interestingly, it
seems that Gnus does not fetch the headers from nnimap groups, only
from nntp groups.  Strange.

Simon,

does this ring a bell with you?  Does the agent header caching stuff
do more work for nnimap than for nntp groups?  Or is there additional
header caching going on for nnimap?

Henrik,

is Gnus behaving better now with the change I just made?  How bad is
it still?

kai
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