From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55447 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: automatic Agentizing of servers (was: Summary buffer Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:55:14 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87llot87v1.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> References: <4nn0aleo5u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nd6bhhf0j.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <877k0fwc8i.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> <87y8sv2smn.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> <87u13jxmzg.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> <87isjy9ga0.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072875338 29286 80.91.224.253 (31 Dec 2003 12:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3987@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 31 13:55:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Abfss-0004OY-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:55:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Abfsg-0005y7-00; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:55:22 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Abfsb-0005y2-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:55:17 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170DE3A0035 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:55:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Abfsa-0003Aa-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:55:16 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbfsZ-0003AS-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:55:15 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbfsZ-0007bt-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:55:15 +0100 Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1004 (Gnus v5.10.4) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nIrqsdbYkTbxTh9F7BnTqistEJg= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55447 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55447 >>>>> Simon Josefsson : > Do you think the default of enabling the agent as cache should be > changed though? I don't know. If your changes had been in when I upgraded, I would have done J r on both agentized servers and not given it a second thought. > I suspect most users of nntp/nnimap access remote servers, most of > which are slower than local disk, and have disk space to waste for > caching header data, but I may be wrong. Yes. I suspect 233MHz PIIs with 4GB disks, serving as IMAP servers, and web servers, as well as someone's desktop machine, are the exception, rather than the rule...:-) >> I've also had problems seeing all articles in nnimap earlier, when >> I was running against the same nnimap server from a remote site, >> and using the agent for speedup. But from a different thread I >> read yesterday, it looked like perhaps you have fixed this problem? > Perhaps that was Kevin, I don't recall seeing or fixing anything > similar. I thought it was you, but I was unable to locate the thread, and/or the message. Perhaps I was hallucinating?