From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35168 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: NAGY Andras Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: caching/partially fetching group descriptions? Date: 02 Mar 2001 14:43:39 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170957 1566 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30ECAD049E for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:44:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB13732; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 07:44:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Mar 2001 07:43:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA10173 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 07:43:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.inf.elte.hu (mail.inf.elte.hu [157.181.161.6]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EBBD049E for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:43:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by mail.inf.elte.hu (Postfix, from userid 28535) id 0645C806E; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:43:39 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35168 When I do a C-c C-d (gnus-group-describe-group) on a group, Gnus downloads the whole newsgroup description list from the server, which is quite slow. However, this could be done on a per-group basis: 200 news.inf.elte.hu NNRP Service Ready - newsadmin@inf.elte.hu (posting ok). list newsgroups elte.test.group 215 descriptions in form "group description" elte.test.group For testing newsgroups . or even list newsgroups elte.* 215 descriptions in form "group description" elte.inf.test For testing the local news system ... elte.fozocske Sutes, fozes es az izleles muveszetei . Furthermore, if I put %D in gnus-group-line-format, Gnus downloads the whole list on each startup, which has the same performance impact. Again, this could be done selectively, only for groups for which the info is needed, or Gnus could even cache descrptions (which are very unlikely to change) in .newsrc.eld. Andras