From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61372 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Leaving gnus is slow Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:28:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87hdadm1x2.fsf@k75.linux.bogus> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132130494 8002 80.91.229.2 (16 Nov 2005 08:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9904@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 16 09:41:25 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcIqI-0002zh-CJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:34 +0100 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 1EcIq4-0005kh-00; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:40:20 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EcIf9-0005kc-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:29:03 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EcIf7-0006fU-Gk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:29:03 -0600 Original-Received: from franz.ak.mind.de ([212.42.235.66] helo=k75.linux.bogus) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EcIf5-0004D1-00 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:29:00 +0100 Original-Received: from k75.linux.bogus (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by k75.linux.bogus (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-1) with ESMTP id jAG8SwF7030894 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:28:58 +0100 Original-Received: (from k@localhost) by k75.linux.bogus (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id jAG8SvCD030891; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:28:57 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: k75.linux.bogus: k set sender to andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61372 Archived-At: Leaving gnus takes between 5 and 10 minutes on a fast and otherwise sane and well behaving machine. Other gnus operations are as fast as they have always been. The slowdown became noticable a few months ago, then became annoying a few weeks ago. strace shows the same pattern several 10000 times: gettimeofday({1132127555, 814214}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1132127555, 814633}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1132127555, 824205}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1132127555, 824611}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1132127555, 834211}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1132127555, 834616}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- My ~/.gnus.registry.eld file looks a bit largish to me: -rw-rw-r-- 1 k k 18651823 Nov 16 08:59 /home/k/.gnus.registry.eld My largest overview files are: -rw------- 1 k k 4366389 Nov 16 08:14 /home/k/Mail/subversion/.overview -rw------- 1 k k 4879095 Aug 31 04:41 /home/k/Mail/svg-developers/.overview -rw------- 1 k k 7715045 Nov 16 08:07 /home/k/Mail/junk/.overview -rw------- 1 k k 9153921 Nov 16 09:03 /home/k/Mail/pause/.overview Any suggestions where to have further looks and how to pull this straight again? I'm running current CVS. Thanks, -- andreas