Re: News scan on startup vs 'g' in group buff

[Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> Have you tried passing a numerical argument to 'g' ?  ie 'C-u 2
>>>> g', if your mail groups are at level 2 and 1?
>>> No, I haven't keep different levels for yrs, and it would take some
>>> serious rearranging to try that.
>> The idea was to avoid a "hard" read of the active file, to see if
>> that makes a difference. The right number will catch all your mail
>> groups.  If your mail groups are all level 4 or below then just do
>> C-u 4 g'. If it seizes up again then no joy and you have lost a few
>> more minutes, if not then the active file reading was the problem.
>
> Is there no way to just watch the process and see what the heck gnus
> is doing?  Where all the time is being spent?

That is what I don't know. It is entirely possible that I know less than
you in these matters!  

What I still don't know is whether you tried what I suggested - a
numerical argument to 'g' :-)  My suspicion was that Gnus was stuck on an
active-file, and that would have helped confirm it (or not). The fact that
removing defunct servers has loosened things up also tends that way.

> However, I'd still like to know how to watch the startup process (or
> any other) and be able to see what calls are made etc.

Well, if Those Who Know don't reply,  I guess the answer is to be found
somewhere here:


http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Debugger.html#Debugger

I'll play with that later, but I hope your problem is solved now. 

atb


Glyn