From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70314 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Faster, lolcat. Faster! Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:41:42 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fwxsdfyx.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283395330 3019 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2010 02:42:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:42:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18700@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 02 04:42:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqzke-0006UN-Hn for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqzkW-0004pK-Sx; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqzkV-0004p2-OI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OqzkR-0005wm-CN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OqzkQ-0005zM-00 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:41:54 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqzkP-0006Ni-8j for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-14-16-248.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([24.14.16.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-24-14-16-248.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:41:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-14-16-248.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lpir6/2y4vado3TPV4fRisaVmtU= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70314 Archived-At: On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:22:44 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Now that Gnus is bug-free (because I haven't hacked much on Gnus the LMI> past years) and has HTML support (because I have this week), I think LMI> it's time to have a long good look at why `g' is so slow. LMI> I mean, it's just querying some mail servers and some nntp servers. I LMI> though take less than a second, total, if you're not contacting half the LMI> servers in the world. LMI> Just to see where we were, I did a `g' and straced Emacs. LMI> [larsi@quimbies ~/pgnus]$ grep stat /tmp/s2 | wc -l LMI> 5832 LMI> [larsi@quimbies ~/pgnus]$ grep open /tmp/s2 | wc -l LMI> 305 LMI> Right. It stat()-et 5832 files. 5832 files!!1! And opened and read LMI> and wrote 305 files. Geez. In case you have time: Spooling with nnmaildir is painful with lots of messages. See the thread on emacs-devel that has some proposed patches and a long explanation from Paul Jarc and comments from me. Ted