From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78649 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bug#8502: Make the agent eagerly cache articles Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 00:10:21 -0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304305948 2199 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2011 03:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 03:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8502@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: bugs@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26951@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 02 05:12:24 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 1QGjYc-0002iY-0C for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 05:12:22 +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 1QGjWq-0005CB-JX; Sun, 01 May 2011 22:10:32 -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 1QGjWp-0005Bz-0L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 01 May 2011 22:10:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjWn-0005XS-Pw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 01 May 2011 22:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjWl-0000cm-Oo; Mon, 02 May 2011 05:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:47472 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjWj-0001NQ-6N; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6CF5666140; Mon, 2 May 2011 00:10:21 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 01 May 2011 19:52:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78649 Archived-At: >> IIUC gnus-agent-cache only causes headers to be cached. Not caching >> full articles made a lot of sense a few years ago, but with current disk >> sizes, most/many MUAs happily keep a full local copy of the remote IMAP >> folders and Gnus should be able to do the same. > Downloading articles isn't so much about disk space as network > capacity. But I agree with you that the Agent should probably download > the articles by default. I'm talking about caching. I.e. keeping local copies after we've downloaded them, so it shouldn't increase network traffic, only disk use. > Does anybody mind me switching `gnus-agent-predicate' to `true' by > default? Maybe that would be good, yes. A better docstring would also be welcome: I don't understand the current one. Stefan