Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers.

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Daniel M. <xt@nm.ru> writes:

>>Does it help to put (gnus-compile) after the (setq
>>gnus-summary-line-format ...) statement?
>
> Unfortunatley not at all - it still takes the same 1 min. 37 sec.
> to load the group. For 26 sec. the status line reads: "Fetching
> headers for comp.lang.lisp" (the group I ma loading), then
> for the rest of the time: "Generating summary".

I see.  I'm afraid that probably most people do not open groups with
that many articles.  The time used for summary generation depends on
the length of the summary buffer.

Some people like to keep lots of articles marked as unread, especially
for mail, so that they do not lose track of the context.  But I think
that it works well to (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t): this leads to
Gnus showing the complete thread, if there is an unread article in
that thread.  This way, I get the complete context of new discussions,
without having to keep all old articles of this discussion unread.

So my question to you is: why are there 12,000 unread articles in that
group?  I'm suspecting that you don't intend to read them all...

Kai