From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Freeze up on general news scan (g)
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:59:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob5zeepj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y554qfkj.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com>
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:15:44 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
> EA> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:59:44 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>>
> EA> A "me too" might not be that helpful, but... me too. Any time I resume
> EA> the computer or re-connect to a network I'm in the habit of opening a
> EA> single nntp group, to prod the connection into life, then hitting 'g'.
>>>
>>> Lars asked about this on the emacs-devel mailing list with no good
>>> solution. We just don't know if the remote is down. I think it
>>> requires some reworking of the Emacs process code to make detection of
>>> hung or stale connections easier, and to build keepalives into the base
>>> level. But I don't think Lars ever set a course of action.
>>>
>>> Until we have some resolution, use the following sequence (it can
>>> probably be written in Lisp but I haven't bothered):
>>>
>>> `^' = Server buffer
>>> `M-c' = close all server
>>> `q' = leave the Server buffer
>>>
>>> Now `g' will open new connections for all servers.
>>>
>>> Ted
>
> EA> Thanks for this, at least it's good to know the state of affairs. It
> EA> looks an elisp version of that sequence would be very simple: just call
> EA> `gnus-server-close-all-servers', and then `gnus'.
>
> It would be nice to add that to `gnus' as a user option (maybe a boolean
> `gnus-always-reopen-connections'). I worry, however, that adding it
> implicitly says we don't plan to solve the problem.
I wish I could be of more use, but network connectivity is foreign
territory to me. Where would you propose to add this reopen hook? How
would emacs/gnus know that, for instance, the computer had just resumed
from hibernation?
E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-05 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-09 17:18 Harry Putnam
2012-01-03 23:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04 15:57 ` Harry Putnam
2012-01-06 14:33 ` Harry Putnam
2012-01-06 21:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-10-06 17:54 ` Harry Putnam
2013-10-07 0:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-03 11:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-04 2:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-04 16:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-05 2:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2013-11-05 6:03 ` Vincent Bernat
2013-11-11 15:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-08 17:58 ` Harry Putnam
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