From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:14:52 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86r65rtnub.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225820591 415 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2008 17:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:43:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 04 18:44:14 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KxPwn-0005nK-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:44:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxPvg-000677-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:43:00 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net riHqXz5X4lFW08vc1VSW5YaAg2xhlCCPX8ZU4KrcN2miYAPZ6/XACNROA7S7H4hjp6kdaDFjtBeDtvhHyLfnpAyWXA0hQvp64BLLhqoClwlznZlgFcFs1XaI4tdwZqtn Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:14:52 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: 4R2voSSUapF3KdlaEWJ8yasMTqp7UC6g8MWcf3wkeOI= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0dn1XBUxbVwGAwWFkDTrOj4oLN4= sha1:Ie1aBPDGRdW0s5MBC9KbLfZCNCA= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: sNkoZ1wWs9jybG85GbdXPFNUS9RDlS02MmXkAick+0c= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164103 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59440 Archived-At: On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:10:17 -0500 Joe Fineman wrote: JF> I run Gnus v5.10.6 under Emacs 21.3.1 under Windows XP (alas). JF> Because Verizon has truncated its service, I recently signed on to a JF> latitudinarian news server (Motzarella). I find that four of the JF> newsgroups I want to read come up with backlogs on the order of 30 JF> million postings. When I try to do catchup (C) on one of them, it JF> stalls & eventually gives an out-of-memory message. (The first time, JF> when I let it try for a longish time, it ended up giving interminable JF> beeps & hanging both Emacs and Windows; I had to do a hardware JF> shutdown.) JF> What does one do in such a situation? I see nothing about it in info JF> or Google or the Gnus FAQ. I've never seen this, but it should be fairly easy to edit the newsrc.eld file and catch up from there. Make sure you're not running Gnus. For example I have: ("nntp+news.albasani.net:comp.risks" 3 ((1 . 148)) ((seen (118 . 148))) (nntp "news.albasani.net")) Which says that 118-148 have been seen. You may run into problems with very large numbers as far as Emacs is concerned. There's no easy fix there but you should report it to the Gnus mailing list nevertheless so you can get some answers and maybe someone will work on it. JF> I have tried twice to post this query on gnu.emacs.gnus (a moderated JF> group), but it has not appeared, nor have I received any reason for JF> its rejection. I'm not sure what's up with your news server--that group is not moderated on mine, but you can try the ding mailing list instead. That's the usual place to talk about Gnus development, and it's accesible through gmane.org as well if you prefer NNTP. Ted