Gnus development mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Trivia information about agent operation
Date: 11 Nov 1999 16:27:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3so2dt5ei.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3dufhx7p.fsf@ca.ibm.com>

Rene Matteau <matteau@ca.ibm.com> writes:

> It seems that gnus first download the headers and build the .overview
> file and then download all the articles and keep them in memory until
> all have been retrieved. Then it write them to disk. This may be a
> problem if the machine crash in the middle as you start from the
> beginning again...

Yup.  I've now put this on the todo list.

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


      reply	other threads:[~1999-11-11 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-10  2:55 Rene Matteau
1999-11-11 15:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m3so2dt5ei.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org \
    --to=larsi@gnus.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).