From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8502: Make the agent eagerly cache articles Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 00:10:21 -0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304307426 7533 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2011 03:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 03:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8502@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: bugs@gnus.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 02 05:36:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjwQ-0003hF-6y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 05:36:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjwP-00079U-PJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjwN-00079N-75 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjwM-0006MU-Ap for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjwM-0006MQ-9L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjXK-000375-1R; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:11:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org Resent-Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 03:11:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8502 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,gnus X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8502-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8502.130430583411931 (code B ref 8502); Mon, 02 May 2011 03:11:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8502) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 May 2011 03:10:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjWr-00036O-SQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjWp-00036C-Ra for 8502@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:47472 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGjWj-0001NQ-6N; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6CF5666140; Mon, 2 May 2011 00:10:21 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 01 May 2011 19:52:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 23:11:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46139 Archived-At: >> IIUC gnus-agent-cache only causes headers to be cached. Not caching >> full articles made a lot of sense a few years ago, but with current disk >> sizes, most/many MUAs happily keep a full local copy of the remote IMAP >> folders and Gnus should be able to do the same. > Downloading articles isn't so much about disk space as network > capacity. But I agree with you that the Agent should probably download > the articles by default. I'm talking about caching. I.e. keeping local copies after we've downloaded them, so it shouldn't increase network traffic, only disk use. > Does anybody mind me switching `gnus-agent-predicate' to `true' by > default? Maybe that would be good, yes. A better docstring would also be welcome: I don't understand the current one. Stefan