Re: nnvirtual not working with September 0.51 / XEmacs 19.14b14

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor] <Michael> writes:

Michael> Hi there,
Michael> I'm not sure this is an sgnus bug at all.  I'm running XEmacs
Michael> 19.14b14, and nnvirtual is broken in some ways:

nnvirtual brokenness includes XEmacs 19.13 also.

Michael> I have an nnvirtual group combining an nnml group and an nntp
Michael> group.

Michael> First of all, fetching the article headers takes *forever*, usually
Michael> (with more than 20 articles) on the order of several minutes.

I've found this to be sort of an on-again off-again sort of thing.  A
versions back nnvirtual was working as smoothly as it ever had.  Now
it takes forever (>15 minutes) to load the nnvirtual group I have, no
matter what the unread article counts are in the component groups.  I
have successfully loaded nnvirtual groups of up to around 2000
articles in the past.

Here is a list of what else doesn't appear to work:
M-g is broken.  With previous behavior, one could read one of the
nnvirtual component groups, then move the cursor to the nnvirtual
group and hit M-g and the article count would be reduced by the number
of articles read in the component group.  This is not true now.

Nnvirtual component groups get articles with strange markings.  I am
entering component groups of an nnvirtual group that have articles
marked ``!''.  This is a difficult one to track down since I never
mark articles in those groups and the behavior does have any
regularity that I could determine.  It may be related to doing M-g,
which is the only operation other than G E that I can reasonably do
with nnvirtual groups right now.

Both of these two problems have arisen relatively recently.

I too have noticed wildly variant header loading times, and the only
thing I can think of is that it has something to do with crossposted
articles among the component groups.  I have not been able to quantify
it in a reasonable fashion though.

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