Re: timeouts in gnus?

[Emanuel Berg]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> I'm having a problem with gnus when I'm getting rss
> feeds in that while gnus is querying the site,
> everything in emacs pauses and is unusable. Is it
> possible for there to be a timeout of say 20
> seconds, and then it moves on to the next site?

That Gnus does pause everything I do recognize without
using RSS in particular myself. If you provide your
setup it might help us help you. But this should be
fast so as long as it works it shouldn't be a problem
time-wise. But if it doesn't work, and this should be
clear early on, then no, it isn't good if this stalls
everything else. But even so, can't you escape from it
with C-g when it happens?

> ATM, I have 42 feeds which are showing "*:" as one
> feed didn't respond, for whatever reason, and it has
> caused all of them to show that they couldn't read
> their feed.

Is "feed" analogous to a news- or mailgroup? If so,
what you describe shouldn't happen unless all those
feeds are from the same server. Then it should happen
because it is the server that is down or otherwise
unreachable from your client (computer, and Gnus) and
this would then affect all feeds.

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