From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10597 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: how to let fetchmail's output shown in minibar? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:37:16 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <86abldevrc.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <87skz5scgq.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <86r6epe9ot.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <86hcfle7vz.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <47ce8456$0$16958$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <87pru9nwea.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204724289 24160 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 13:38:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:38:09 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 14:38:36 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 1JWtot-0000vQ-Bl for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:38:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWtoM-0006iv-4F for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:37:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWtoK-0006iE-9b for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:37:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWtoI-0006hw-NQ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:37:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWtoI-0006ht-Hn for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:37:30 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWtoI-0008U7-4f for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:37:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JWtoD-0006BE-QT for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:37:25 +0000 Original-Received: from kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp ([125.52.252.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:37:25 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:37:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5mai0oNtauRKNNZgDRX26j7EDnE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:10597 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > William Xu writes: > >> Are there many differences between: >> >> 1. fetchmail -d $interval >> 2. a cron job running `fetchmail' every $interval > > Not in the result. But surely in the process. My guess is that running > fetchmail as a daemon is faster and less resource-consuming. "faster", maybe. "resource-consuming", looks like just the opposite. The daemon version will stay in the memory, eating cpu all through its life; the non-daemon just wakes up at the right moment, finish the job, quit. -- William http://williamxu.net9.org