Re: Gnus slow?

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:47:11 +0900, Katsumi wrote:

> Hi, First of all, I don't have any difficulty in using Gnus. Today
> I'm using both No Gnus v0.2 and latest Gnus CVS for a while, but I
> was not able to find out a remarkable difference of speed between
> them so far. However, a friend of mine wrote to me that the recent
> Gnus is much slower than No Gnus v0.2 for fetching mails. IIRC, I
> also have heard similar utterances by several people in groups and
> mailing lists.

I don't know when this started, it may not be related at all, but I'll
mention it just in case:

Recently I got annoyed by hearing my harddisk make a lot of noise
every time I pressed 'g' in Gnus - when checking for new news on the
three news-servers I use - so I tried strace'ing XEmacs/Gnus.

(I was expecting it to be rather silent when checking news-servers
over the net...)

Gnus was trying to opening a lot of files every time I pressed 'g' -
from the names I gathered that it could be something to do with the
Agent (.agentview?), so I went to the server-buffer and unagentized
everything. (I don't use any functionality of the Agent, that I know
of, but back when it became on by default I didn't turn it off).

That change has made the harddisk-noise while checking for new news go
away. Now I only hear noise when mail is being split and stored, and
after that none of the previous 'hitting the harddisk' occurs.

I don't know if this is significant, to be expected, or something else
entirely, but there you go.


This observation is based on a the cvs-gnus I'm posting this article
with, last updated, uh, this summer; No Gnus v0.3, XEmacs 21.4 (patch
15).

I should probably update.


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "More than anything, I won't try"                            Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk