From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Need help: Where to debug "Server closed connection" opening Gmane NNTP groups with many unread articles on Windows?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:20:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87613hrnhg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ryhoah9i5v6.fsf@dod.no>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>:
>
>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>> My comment from 2002 says "faster on sparse groups":
>>> a030466a home/sb/.gnus.el (sb 2002-03-12 11:10:54 +0000 242) (setq nntp-nov-gap 1) ; faster on sparse groups
>
>> I think that can only be faster on a very slow (but low-latency)
>> connection, where the additional round trips are compensated by the
>> fewer data to receive. The default value is 5, which means that there
>> isn't much potential for savings.
>
> Looks like I was the reason/cause for the default to end up as 5, back
> in 1997...
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9546/focus=9567
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9546/focus=9567
> (and the articles in between)
>
> Alternatively, to see them directly in Gnus:
> nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11789
> (I wonder if `A T' on that article will bring up the whole thread...?)
Much respect for our elders!
:)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-11 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-16 7:06 Steinar Bang
2015-01-28 6:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-28 10:46 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-07 19:51 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-07 20:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-08 10:40 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-08 17:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-10 20:24 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-10 21:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-11 7:28 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-11 8:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-11 10:54 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-11 15:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-09-12 7:14 ` Steinar Bang
2015-11-07 9:27 ` Steinar Bang
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