From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81921 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 15:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <85txygk74a.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <877gvcd91f.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339506794 10943 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2012 13:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30191@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 12 15:13:13 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 1SeQuG-0007dT-KT for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:13:12 +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 1SeQsc-0001Zl-H4; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:11:30 -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 1SeQsa-0001ZW-Ue for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:11:28 -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 1SeQsZ-0002Sf-9o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mx01.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.1] helo=mx.inode.at) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SeQsX-0000kl-D6 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:11:25 +0200 Original-Received: from [91.119.76.58] (port=6795 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-01.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SeQsS-0000MD-4M; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:11:20 +0200 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SeQsQ-0000b1-2h; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:11:18 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Tassilo Horn , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <877gvcd91f.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:11:40 +0200") 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:81921 Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 12 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: > My `gnus-fetch-old-headers' is 'some, so it might want to fetch some > older messages to connect new articles in a thread, but not so many. I > just entered the gmane xetex group which had 4 new articles. The > summary showed those 4 articles + 2 old articles from yesterday (the 4 > new were replies of the 2 old ones). But when entering the group, the > "nntp read: kb" message counted to more than 12.000. > > I suspect this change is the culprit, so I added Wolfgang to the Cc. > > ,---- > | commit 44f603535c63aab124e139b145fce20fff488f38 > | Author: Wolfgang Jenkner > | Date: Mon Jun 11 23:49:17 2012 +0200 > | > | Make `A T' work when agentized > | > | * gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-retrieve-headers): Recalculate the range of > | articles when fetch-old is non-nil (bug#11370). > `---- I admit that it hadn't occurred to me to test this patch with non-default values of gnus-fetch-old-headers, but the docstring of this variable actually seems to match the behaviour you describe... Wolfgang