From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62894 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus doesn't update nntp marks files when unplugged Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:50:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87hd4rtggk.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145350286 16539 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2006 08:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11421@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 18 10:51:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVlvT-00062d-27 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVlvN-0002zK-00; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVlvF-0002zF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:50:57 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVlvD-0003u2-H2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:50:57 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVlvC-0007Go-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:50:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k3I8opou028492 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:50:52 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:060418:ding@gnus.org::PyOlElYxC1la3KSQ:FBXN In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:39:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62894 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > >> ;; I added Lars to Cc:. >> >> Does anyone know what is *exceedingly slow*? I'm using only >> nntp and nnml, moreover am always plugged, so it is hard to >> imagine what kind of back end slows Gnus down by synchronizing >> flags. >> >>>> 2005-09-20 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen >> >>>> * gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-synchronize-flags): Switch the >>>> default to nil, to be able to use Gnus at all. If the default >>>> switches to something else, then the function should be fixed not >>>> be exceedingly slow. > > It was taking several minutes for me... If there's still interest in > this, I can switch it back on again and see how that goes. Yes, please do. Nnimap users are bitten by this behaviour when they try the agent. The result is that none of the flag changes made while offline are synchronized back to the server if that flag is disabled. I think the default should be t. It has always been quite fast for me.