From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81925 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jenkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Excessive nntp reads since today Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:56:17 +0200 Message-ID: <85aa08jzha.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <877gvcd91f.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <85txygk74a.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87y5nsbqj4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <85pq94k37p.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339516658 1582 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2012 15:57:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30195@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 12 17:57:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTTM-0002oY-0d for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:57:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTSI-0002ND-VI; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTSH-0002N1-Ax for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:56:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTSF-0003Nx-Tf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:56:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mx07.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.7] helo=mx.inode.at) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTSD-0004ha-8u for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:56:25 +0200 Original-Received: from [91.119.76.58] (port=6938 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-07.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTS7-00012z-TV; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:56:19 +0200 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTS5-0000gc-Ln; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:56:17 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Tassilo Horn , ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81925 Archived-At: > The docstring states that it fetches all old headers (though only some > subset of them is displayed). > On Tue, Jun 12 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: >> But the two old messages were from yesterday, and that's a low-traffic >> group with about 20 messages in the last week. There's no chance that >> this required fetching 12 MB of header data, right? Actually, that's the right order of magnitude for fetching all old headers. Just for the record: In a clean environment, as a user with no Gnus related files at $HOME, and with an emacs without the patch, subscribe to, and enter gmane.comp.tex.xetex like this env NNTPSERVER=news.gmane.org emacs -Q -nw ESC x g n u s RET S s g m a n e . c o m p . t e x . x e t e x RET g RET RET Gnus retrieves about 8M header data (look at the size of the " *nntpd*" buffer). Wolfgang