From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58314 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel M. Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers. Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:40:59 -0700 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4knii01atsa54v7dm0gs6taep3v1uoglj7@4ax.com> Reply-To: xt@nm.ru NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093222662 1955 80.91.224.253 (23 Aug 2004 00:57:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6855@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 23 02:57:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bz39R-0004nS-00 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:57:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bz39A-0001hT-00; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:57:16 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Byx7Y-00018x-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Byx7W-0002Ia-Uo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:31:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6D13A0035 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:31:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Byx7R-0002FR-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:31:05 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl217-132-1-68.bb.netvision.net.il ([217.132.1.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:31:05 +0200 Original-Received: from xt by dsl217-132-1-68.bb.netvision.net.il with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:31:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl217-132-1-68.bb.netvision.net.il X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.640 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58314 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58314 Hello everybody, I noticed that even when I enter a group with a relatively small amount of headers - in my case, 12000 for comp.lang.lisp, it takes Gnus a very long time to thread/load them (headers are already in the spool - they were downloaded previously by the Gnus) - 3 minutes and 100% CPU for the duration of that period. Forte Agent, for example, has no problem with groups which contain hundreds of thousands of headers - it takes merely a couple of seconds to load them, so it is not a lack of memory/CPU cycles. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a fundamental issue (elisp is too slow? something in the core of X/Emacs?) which renders Gnus unusable for anything more then a very small groups? After searching the group for a similar questions, I saw an advice to set nntp-marks-is-evil variable to 't', which I have done, but it made no noticable difference. I use Gnus 5.10.6 on Debian (precompiled package from unstable). BTW, listing of all active groups (zombie, killed groups - I am not sure how I am supposed to call them. In effect, it is the list of all groups carried by the server) also takes a lot of time - almost a full minute, although there are only ~32000 groups and the file containing them resides on the HD. I even tried to sort that file, but it didn't help :(. Daniel.