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24.4.50; gnus-asynchronous and long waits

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From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50; gnus-asynchronous and long waits
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:29:43 -0600

I have gnus-asynchronous to t.

When I start reading a group -- I tried just now with
gmane.emacs.bugs -- I can read a single article just fine.
Then if I try to open the next article (say by typing "n"),
Emacs just pauses, saying:

    Waiting for async article...

I've waited several minutes before without it working.

If I C-g the wait, then try to read the chosen article again, it works.

At first I thought this was some issue with the network.
However, if I set gnus-asynchronous to nil, then everything works fine.




In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.9 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
 of 2014-09-21 on bapiya
Repository revision: 117912 eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu-20140921224924-sd071p5m85o5v0n5
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11404000
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/home/tromey/Emacs/install'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Summary

Minor modes in effect:
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  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
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  desktop-save-mode: t
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  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
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  erc-noncommands-mode: t
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  erc-readonly-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
d q SPC SPC SPC > q n n n n SPC c SPC n n SPC SPC SPC 
> < > q n n C-l SPC SPC 2 K i SPC SPC C-x o C-x o n 
SPC <return> <return> SPC SPC SPC n SPC > C-z n C-x 
b * M e s <tab> <return> C-z n n SPC n k q = SPC C-u 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> n SPC 
SPC C-z n C-c b C-z n n SPC n SPC n SPC n = d d d d 
d d d d SPC SPC n SPC SPC q M-g M-g M-g p SPC c SPC 
C-u C-p n SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC = q n SPC c SPC C-u 
C-n p SPC d SPC SPC q p SPC 2 7 <return> C-u d d SPC 
n SPC SPC = C-u d d d d d M-x g n u s - a s <tab> C-g 
C-g C-z n C-h i d m g n u s <return> C-s a s y n c 
C-a m <return> q C-x b 8 s c r <tab> C-a C-k * s c 
r <tab> <return> g n u s - a s y n c ESC TAB <M-backspace> 
a s M-x f l s y C-t p e l - <backspace> l - m o e <return> 
<backspace> d e <return> ESC TAB ESC TAB h ESC TAB 
C-j C-p C-p ( s e t f SPC C-e SPC n i l ) C-j C-z n 
SPC n n = C-u C-n SPC Q y p M-g p SPC 2 7 <return> 
C-u d d SPC n n n n = M-x g n <M-backspace> r e p o 
r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
fnord
 
Waiting for async article...
Quit [3 times]
Composing main Info directory...done
Mark saved where search started
Corrections: sync sync arsenic assn assoc aspic Eysenck Sang sang sank Sung Synge
Flyspell mode disabled
Making completion list...
Discard changes to this group and exit? (y or n) y

Load-path shadows:
/home/tromey/.emacs.d/elpa/css-mode-1.0/css-mode hides /home/tromey/Emacs/install/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/textmodes/css-mode
/home/tromey/.emacs.d/elpa/bubbles-0.5/bubbles hides /home/tromey/Emacs/install/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/play/bubbles

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Memory information:
((conses 16 957122 130534)
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 (heap 1024 140975 7970))

Tom

Message #8 received at 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18529: 24.4.50; gnus-asynchronous and long waits
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:42:08 +0400

On 09/22/2014 08:29 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> I have gnus-asynchronous to t.
>
> When I start reading a group -- I tried just now with
> gmane.emacs.bugs -- I can read a single article just fine.
> Then if I try to open the next article (say by typing "n"),
> Emacs just pauses, saying:
>
>      Waiting for async article...
>
> I've waited several minutes before without it working.
>
> If I C-g the wait, then try to read the chosen article again, it works.
>
> At first I thought this was some issue with the network.
> However, if I set gnus-asynchronous to nil, then everything works fine.

Try to set EMACS_IGNORE_TIMERFD=1 environment variable (see src/atimer.c
for details).

Dmitry

Message #11 received at 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>, 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18529: 24.4.50; gnus-asynchronous and long waits
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:24:38 -0600

Dmitry> Try to set EMACS_IGNORE_TIMERFD=1 environment variable (see
Dmitry> src/atimer.c for details).

That seems to be working, thanks.

Tom

Message #14 received at 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18529: 24.4.50; gnus-asynchronous and long waits
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:54:38 +0400

On 09/22/2014 10:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> That seems to be working, thanks.

Bad :-(. This means that timerfd stuff still has some glitches.

Since I'm not a regular Gnus user, can you share your setup enough
so I can reproduce the bug?  Ideally it should be something like in
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16603#5.

Dmitry

Message #21 received at 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 18330 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>, 18529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18529: 24.4.50; gnus-asynchronous and long waits
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:04:55 +0100

Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> On 09/22/2014 10:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>
>> That seems to be working, thanks.
>
> Bad :-(. This means that timerfd stuff still has some glitches.
>
> Since I'm not a regular Gnus user, can you share your setup enough
> so I can reproduce the bug?  Ideally it should be something like in
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16603#5.

More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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