Re: Gnus fetch freezes emacs

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Sunday,  2 Jul 2023 at 16:59, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> If everyone's hitting this with NNTP servers, you can set
>> `nntp-connection-timeout' to a number of seconds. It is nil by default,
>> which I guess would result in permanent hangs.
>
> So this works, in the sense that it stops me waiting forever... However,
> it seems (early days yet) that when it fails to open the connection to
> an NNTP server, it stops retrieving news and I have to hit 'g' again to
> get the counts etc. updated for other servers.  But much better than
> waiting forever.

Yeah, I'd put in a dumb fix for this that turned out to be buggy, so we
just recently reverted it. I have a more thorough fix in progress
somewhere here, that would report a server connection failure without
interrupting the rest of the servers, but it's not done yet. I've had
very little time for coding recently, but will get to it At Some Point.

Glad it's at least better than it was. I wonder if we should have some
generous timeout set by default...