Re: Excessive nntp reads since today

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:

>>> Well, as I said, when plugged the agent cache is, IMHO, designed to
>>> be transparent with respect to the server.
>>>
>>> This implies that the summary should be the same as if the agent
>>> were non used at all.
>>>
>>> Only when the agent is unplugged it effectively is the server and
>>> you may expose its internal state in the summary.
>
>> Thus there shouldn't be a need to have subscribed groups to be
>> complete (header) mirrors of all available messages on the server.
>
> Of course not.  Nobody said that the agent should cache all headers.
>
> Quite the contrary, actually :-)

But that's actually the effect of your patch.  If the fetch-old argument
is something not numerical, it'll fetch all headers starting with
article number 1 and cache them in the .overview.

Bye,
Tassilo