Re: Slow Access from Gnus

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Apr 04 2008, Jake Colman wrote:

>>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>    SB> Have you tried sniffing the group opening with eg. wireshark to
>    SB> see if the delay is simply network related?
>
> When I enter a traditional nntp-based newsgroup (e.g., comp.emacs.help)
> I see some quick 'nntp read' messages and then I'm in.  Depending on the
> number of messages that have been posted since the last time I entered
> the newsgroup, I will see more or less 'nntp read' messages.
>
> But when I entered gmane.discuss just now, with only two messages posted
> since I last checked it yesterday, I still saw a huge amount of 'nntp
> read' traffic.  It's almost as if Gnus is downloading the entire group
> and doesn't know how much I've already seen.

Set nntp-record-commands to t and check if the commands in the
*nntp-log* buffer are significantly different e.g. for gnu.emacs.help
and gmane.emacs.help.

Bye, Reiner.
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