Hartmut Figge wrote:
User:
One thing I have never been too clear about the newsgroup function on the
Mozilla suite / Seamonkey - if I have a newsgroup server collapsed in the news
folder pane, then the newsgroup server is NOT accessed UNTIL I either highlight
the news server or open it and highlight one of the newsgroups hosted on the
server, is that correct?
Unfortunately not true for at least SM2.0 nightlies of the last months
and now SM2.1. It became obvious with the increase of the load during
the fetch of new postings. Btw, the time frame for this is
h...@e675 ~ $ fenster 0909240813-0909251108
2009-09-23 23:13:00 PDT
2009-09-25 02:08:00 PDT
as i had written in<[email protected]>
At the moment the collapsed state of a newsserver is not honored when
new postings are automatically fetched or at the start of MailNews. All
what matters are the two checkboxes for 'Check for ...' under Server
Settings.
Well, this is a horrible waste of bandwidth and useless also. If a
newsserver is collapased, why should he care about new postings?
I had lamented strongly about this issue in dcsm. *g*
Hartmut
Thanks again for your reply. Do you have any confirmation whether the collapsed
news server state in SM 1.X resulted in the application from skipping of the
news server fetch operation? If yes, then this would appear to be a regression
of a sensible logic that should be in place. Certainly it caused me a lot of
wasted time and grief shortly after installation of SM 2.0 to try and find out
why the hell the application was having regular CPU load surges to the point of
bringing the entire application to its knees.
One thing that seems to be contradicting your assessment though, is that I have
one news server group set up whereby when it is accessed, it will prompt me for
a password. However, when I have that newsgroup collapsed, the password is never
prompted, so presumably this implies that news server is never accessed /
checked. This would seem contradictory to your assessment that the news server
is checked even if the news server group was collapsed. So I am not sure about
this point.
I did not view the messages in the links to other German newsgroups you
mentioned earlier, because I had presumed they might be in German language. But
if it is English I would be interested to check it out. I agree that it is a
useless waste of bandwidth and also more importantly, a completely avoidable
problem with regards to CPU load and application thread load. It would be nice
if someone who has close involvement in the newsgroup logic development on SM
2.0 provide some insight / clarification on this issue.
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