[news.software.readers] Re: Mozilla blamed for overload on newsservers

[news.software.readers] Re: Mozilla blamed for overload on newsservers

[Per Abrahamsen]

Could we do something like this in Gnus?  

There is a high-traffic group with 60 days expire I read daily, and
fetching the headers takes time, even though the server is on the
local network. 

[ Just because Mozilla does it, doesn't mean it's bad. ]

------- Start of forwarded message -------
From: Phil Peterson <phil@netscape.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Mozilla blamed for overload on newsservers
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 18:19:05 -0800
Organization: Netscape Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <33470819.91FC6F59@netscape.com>
References: <3342D596.AF8@xs4all.nl> <3343F6D9.BD0EC0F1@netscape.com> <5i15oj$bah@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <334478C6.7E33675@netscape.com> <5i3lnt$l3p@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>

billy@mix.com wrote:
> 
..snip..
> Well.. you folks seem to do pretty caching web pages, why aren't you
> caching this stuff too?  XOVER reads are a heck of a lot faster when
> one only requests what's new to them.  My feeling is this places the
> burden where it belongs, on the user's machine, not the server.  Yes
> this won't catch articles canceled in between reads and probably has
> some other problems - perhaps you could read in the new records first
> then go back and refresh the old data..?

Way ahead of you. Communicator/4.0 does cache header information on the
local disk. We only XOVER new stuff when you open the group. 

In the 2.x/3.x newsreader, there was no local header cache, so Show All
Messages had to go XOVER every article in the group. This is not the
case in 4.0.

-- Phil.
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Re: [news.software.readers] Re: Mozilla blamed for overload on newsservers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Could we do something like this in Gnus?  

[...]

> Way ahead of you. Communicator/4.0 does cache header information on the
> local disk. We only XOVER new stuff when you open the group. 

Since nnagent is going to to this, we might be able to reuse the code
for Gnus.  Or perhaps the other way around.  We'll see.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen