From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup?
Date: 20 Apr 2000 02:17:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3og75d3rc.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y9lsnwz48m9.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
> A FAQ around here from new Gnus users is that, when they start Gnus
> from scratch, it reads >100Megabytes from the nntp server for hours,
> and then they give up. I've usually told people to fiddle with
>
> `gnus-read-active-file' and `gnus-check-new-newsgroups',
>
> but they tell me it doesn't help.
If `gnus-read-active-file' is `some' (which is the default), Gnus
shouldn't be reading megs of stuff on startup...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-20 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-06 14:17 Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-20 0:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2000-04-21 9:57 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-21 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-23 13:05 ` Markus Leypold
2000-04-23 19:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-24 0:49 ` Russ Allbery
2000-04-25 8:23 ` Markus Leypold
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