From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18476 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Nntp inefficiencies Date: 10 Nov 1998 05:41:46 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6f67d62e2s.fsf@dna.lth.se> <6fpvbbo9ed.fsf@dna.lth.se> <6fg1c3ef1i.fsf@dna.lth.se> <6fu30as9mo.fsf@dna.lth.se> <6fogqixnli.fsf@dna.lth.se> <7wr9vdqses.fsf@lite.jlm.johnbryce.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156993 6345 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:36:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA21937 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:54:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB09963; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:53:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 09 Nov 1998 22:53:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA07289 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:52:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp067.uio.no [129.240.240.72]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA21842 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:52:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA29814; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:54:21 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Janet Frame's _The Carpathians_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Yair Friedman's message of "09 Nov 1998 08:41:47 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070043 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.43) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > > In the special case you described, getting the number right is > > trivial, but it's a fairly unusual situation. > > So can you plase describe the usual situation? The usual situation is that some articles (usually the FAQs) have a longer expiry than the rest of the articles. This leads to huge active ranges, where the user usually has most of that range marked as read. In this situation, having the actual article count doesn't help at all. > When our server had NOV problems (Strange Line etc.) I edebuged some of > the code to understand what commands are issued and what is the strange > response. I found out that gnus issus XOVER command for a a very long > and as seems to me unneeded range (Usually 1-MAX). That sounds like you have `gnus-fetch-old-headers' switched on. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen