From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] master 88578a4: Increase the default number of hits Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:54:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151224213932.12107.84317@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87wps1ghyu.fsf@gnus.org> <87mvsxatkz.fsf@gmx.de> <87k2o1gffk.fsf@gnus.org> <87io3lastz.fsf@gmx.de> <87twn5q8yl.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451184887 14498 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 02:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 03:54:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1Tj-00086f-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:54:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1Ti-0006gM-Mf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1TW-0006eV-Fb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1TV-0004AH-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:54:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1TM-00047j-4y; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1TK-0004Ow-Qf; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:54:14 -0500 In-reply-to: <87twn5q8yl.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:57:22 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196956 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > You'll have all bugs at the end, in the same buffer. You just need to > > say three times "download the next debbugs-gnu-default-hits-per-page bugs", > > instead of saying it once. Not too uncomfortable, when you start a > > triage over all bugs. > As a user interface, having to wait for four times with commands > inbetween is not a very good user interface. This is Lisp code; we can easily give users a way to ask for whatever they want. > Because the more results you fetch at once, the more memory it uses on > the server, thus increasing the likelihood of a bunch of simultaneous > requests causing an out-of-memory condition. I did already explain this, > not sure why it's hard to get across. Most (all?) search engines limit > the number of results you get per page. If it causes problems to request all the bug reports in a single command, the Lisp code could send multiple commands to fetch them 500 at a time until it has got them all. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.