From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26574 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rene Matteau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Trivia information about agent operation Date: 09 Nov 1999 21:55:22 -0500 Organization: Gnus Information Center Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163756 20100 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:29:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03790 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:32:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB03365; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:32:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:32:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA17703 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:32:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03775 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:31:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA16036 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:33:55 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fw2.torolab.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 942240835 12622 199.246.40.3 (10 Nov 1999 13:33:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 1999 13:33:55 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26574 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26574 I always read the news in disconnected mode as I want to be able to read the news wherever I am even if there is no network present (with a portable computer). I also read the old postings where available as they give an historical view of the product. I just found the gnus.gnus-bug newsgroup on quimby. I set it up and ran gnus-agent-batch. I have a cable modem and I am in Canada. Here are some statistics and observations: I started the command at 14h50. By 15h12, the .overview file was written and the counter at the bottom of the Emacs window was still running strong. I had to leave where it was passed 80 Meg downloaded and still going. Anyway, the first article in the agent directory was written at 19h46 and the last one at 20h06. 22889 articles were downloaded for a total of 95.840 Meg of data. The Emacs is running on Windows NT. Four hours and 18 minutes of CPU time was used, there were 273144 page faults and the memory used went over 188 Meg. 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... Now it's time to start reading :-) -- Rene