From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58334 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers. Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:05:39 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <868yc43fn0.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <4knii01atsa54v7dm0gs6taep3v1uoglj7@4ax.com> <86u0us3mrf.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093349213 8574 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 12:06:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6875@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 24 14:06:46 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 1Bza4b-0001Ei-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:06:45 +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 1Bza3r-0006aV-00; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bza3j-0006aN-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bza3j-0001Wl-80 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4673A003A for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:05:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bza3h-0002wW-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:05:49 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1093349149 9007 139.4.37.213 (24 Aug 2004 12:05:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:05:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JhhiZ4cHPQAOHlNJe1Fn4bvQj+M= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58334 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58334 Daniel M. 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