From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78804 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: C y on really large groups Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:47:23 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87oc38x638.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87k4dyzhqp.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87zkmumtny.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87zkmulee2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305150922 12668 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2011 21:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:55:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27104@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 11 23:55:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QKHNC-0002rT-Nv for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 23:55:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QKHN6-0005cm-LJ; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QKHN5-0005cc-MP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QKHN4-0004b3-OI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QKHN3-0005Ux-Aj for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 23:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QKHN2-0002mH-Tn for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 23:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 23:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 23:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lxuWUa39oVI0dGTvjgr4OoZt9cg= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78804 Archived-At: On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:56:36 +0200 Didier Verna wrote: dvl> Got it. The problem is that I have gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups dvl> set to ".*". When doing a catchup, Gnus grabs the article range which is dvl> something like (min . max) and maps over all the actual numbers in order dvl> to add the expirable mark on each article. So no wonder it takes hours. dvl> What's more intriguing is that this variable is not supposed to affect dvl> nntp groups so I hadn't expected this behavior. But now that I think of dvl> it, I realize that all my nntp newsgroups articles have the E mark set dvl> (I can see that in the summary buffers), which does really make sense, dvl> does it ? You can set the E mark, but since the backend is read-only (there's a nn* variable for this) it won't matter. So the code on catchup that adds the E mark should simply check the backend and skip processing if the E mark is irrelevant. Ted