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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus' speed
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:11:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab21ridk.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqhbqai0.fsf@blah.blah>

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:
> I never understood why startup takes quite so long (with those
> newsgroups check bits set to nil, and only a dozen or so local nntp and
> nnml subscribed, but lots unsubscribed).  Maybe it's just the quantity
> of code loaded.  Did someone profile it a few years ago?

On my work machine, Gnus startup is slow because my home directory and
mail directories are on NFS, and NFS is an insane dog (operations that
don't require much I/O to my homedir are all quite fast).

-Miles

-- 
I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme
or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over.  --Ian Wolff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-15  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-28 18:34 Daniel Clemente
2009-07-28 21:03 ` Leo
2009-07-29  8:03   ` Daniel Clemente
2009-07-29  8:44     ` David Engster
2009-07-29 11:03       ` Karl Kleinpaste
2009-07-29 11:59         ` David Engster
2009-07-29 12:26           ` Karl Kleinpaste
2009-07-29 12:44             ` David Engster
2009-07-29 18:30               ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-29 20:19                 ` Tom Tromey
2009-07-30  6:03                   ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-31  6:30                 ` Bill White
2009-07-29 18:46           ` Reiner Steib
2009-08-15  1:07           ` Miles Bader
2009-08-15  1:50             ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-29 18:25       ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-29  9:47     ` Leo
2009-07-29 18:24     ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-30  5:58       ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-30 13:33         ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-31  5:06           ` Daniel Pittman
2009-08-02 14:20       ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-03 14:38         ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-30  5:59     ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-29  7:07 ` CHENG Gao
2009-07-29 18:20   ` nnrss through Google Reader (was: Gnus' speed) Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-31 13:44     ` nnrss through Google Reader Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-30  0:38   ` Gnus' speed Kevin Ryde
2009-07-29 18:55 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-30  0:29   ` Kevin Ryde
2009-07-30  7:41     ` Adam Sjøgren
2009-08-04  1:10       ` Kevin Ryde
2009-08-15  1:11     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-15  8:28       ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-16  3:50         ` Miles Bader
2009-08-04 17:48   ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-04 17:46 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-05  5:52   ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-05  5:55     ` Steinar Bang
2009-08-05  8:20       ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-05 15:10         ` Steinar Bang

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