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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Freeze up on general news scan (g)
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:47:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y554qfkj.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n7sc3ov.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

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.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-04 16:47 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 [this message]
2013-11-05  2:59             ` Eric Abrahamsen
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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