From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11134 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexis Hazell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Startup issues and server availability Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:23:46 GMT Organization: BigPond Internet Services Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214013558 30703 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2008 01:59:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:59:18 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 21 04:00:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9sOM-0001JS-U9 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34684 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9sNX-0005sR-JG for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:58:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.glorb.com!nlpi057.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FyF+DnjKDctWWvvNh6IMC7ytyJI= Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.219.125.201 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au Original-X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1213968226 121.219.125.201 (Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:23:46 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:23:46 EST Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:81349 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:55:35 -0400 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:11134 Archived-At: Hi all, i've recently made the move to Gnus from slrn - overall, i've found it to be much more enjoyable to use. :-) However, i'm finding some hassles: * Earlier today, whilst starting up Gnus, an ethernet cable got knocked loose, and so Gnus quite rightly decided the server was unavailable. i thought that i could let Gnus know that my news server was again available by visiting the server buffer and pressing 'O' whilst on the line listing the news server i use. Nope, didn't work. i tried quitting Gnus (via 'q' from the Group buffer) and restarting it, but that made no difference either. The only thing that seems to work is restarting Emacs entirely. * i can't work out how to get the same sort of startup performance from Gnus as i get from slrn. When i start up slrn, there's a pause of only a few seconds before i get a listing of my subscribed groups and the new article count for each group. Using Gnus, however, i first have to wait whilst the entire active list is downloaded - ~2.5M on the news server i'm using, news.bigpond.com - and then my CPU usage jumps to 100 percent for a few minutes whilst Gnus finds new news. i've spent a fair amount of time playing around with what i presume are the relevant settings in ~/.gnus (which i've confirmed is the config file Gnus is looking for), without success. Currently that file looks like: (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server gnus-read-active-file 'some gnus-use-cache t gnus-cache-directory "~/.News/cache" gnus-cache-active-file "~/.News/cache/active") But it doesn't matter what values i give to gnus-check-new-newsgroups (nil or 'ask-server) or gnus-read-active-file (nil, 'some or t) - i still get the same startup behaviour. i presume that i'm missing a number of things and /or doing a number of things wrong . . . . ? Any help would be much appreciated! Alexis.