From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6899 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threads Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:31:27 +0100 Organization: University Koblenz-Landau Campus Koblenz Message-ID: <87mzfzg8hc.fsf_-_@baldur.nicundtas.de> References: <87acc1uya8.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> <87acc0bu36.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141906587 641 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2006 12:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 09 13:16:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHK3j-0000sT-P9 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:16:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHK3i-000223-DY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:15:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!cache.uni-koblenz.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp20.uni-koblenz.de Original-X-Trace: cache.uni-koblenz.de 1141903887 20426 141.26.71.20 (9 Mar 2006 11:31:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cache.uni-koblenz.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:31:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aYT/tApuaZ+bGHK1Fmd8BdZLEV8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77084 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6899 Archived-At: Rolleston writes: > It attempts to download every header it can from the news server. Try that > on 'alt.test' and you'll begin to see why (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t) > is a bad idea. :) Ok, I was able to reproduce this. I've set nntp-record-commands to t and made `g' in Summary Buffer to fetch new articles which resulted in infko.general (3) When I entered this Group Gnus started to fetch several megabytes and the output in *nntp-log* was ,----[ *nntp-log* after entering infko.general with 3 new articles ] | 20060309T121041.752 news.uni-koblenz.de GROUP infko.general | 20060309T121041.926 news.uni-koblenz.de XOVER 1-61172 `---- This newsgroup has medium traffic and I enter it several times a day, so all except the 3 new articles should have been available... After the `g' I also had comp.emacs (1) and entering this group resulted in ,----[ *nntp-log* after entering comp.emacs with 1 new article ] | 20060309T121028.368 news.uni-koblenz.de GROUP comp.emacs | 20060309T121028.372 news.uni-koblenz.de XOVER 54834-54834 `---- That looks quite ok to me. So why does Gnus fetch all headers of infko.general but only the needed headers for comp.emacs? INFO: I use Gnus with gnus-agent and try to prevent loose threads with (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) But the 3 new articles in infko.general don't reference old articles which would require the fetching of all headers. Regards, Tassilo