From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Slowness in entering group
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:53:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y793xwe8.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5m4nolk.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:01:27 +0000")
On 2008-01-20 23:01 +0100, Leo wrote:
> I mean to say that I found entering some groups slow. I attached the
> output of elp on first entering gmane.emacs.devel:
>
> gnus-retrieve-headers 3 2.6721069999 0.8907023333
> gnus-topic-select-group 1 1.415315 1.415315
> gnus-group-select-group 1 1.415232 1.415232
> gnus-group-read-group 1 1.415219 1.415219
> gnus-summary-read-group 1 1.415144 1.415144
> gnus-summary-read-group-1 1 1.415129 1.415129
> gnus-select-newsgroup 1 1.378835 1.378835
> gnus-fetch-headers 1 1.305574 1.305574
> gnus-cache-retrieve-headers 1 1.301855 1.301855
> gnus-agent-retrieve-headers 1 1.301328 1.301328
> gnus-agent-braid-nov 1 0.170419 0.170419
> gnus-agent-save-alist 1 0.064861 0.064861
> gnus-agent-check-overview-buffer 1 0.060268 0.060268
> gnus-cache-file-contents 6 0.042273 0.0070455
> gnus-agent-load-alist 3 0.037091 0.0123636666
> gnus-agent-read-agentview 2 0.0355329999 0.0177664999
> gnus-request-group 1 0.035065 0.035065
> gnus-agent-uncached-articles 1 0.02874 0.02874
> gnus-agent-get-undownloaded-list 1 0.022889 0.022889
> gnus-mode-line-buffer-identification 3 0.014432 0.0048106666
>
> Hope someone can take a look?
A belated reply, but maybe it is of help: I noticed the slowness myself
and found out that the agent uses a big amount of disk space as cache.
In the worst case, it loaded several dozen megabytes on entering the
group!
The remedy was to use the gnus-agent-expire-group command for these
groups, which not only speeded things up tremendously, but also shrunk
the size of my ~/News directory by 90%. See also
(Info "(gnus)Agent Expiry").
HTH,
Sven
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 21:56 Leo
2008-01-20 22:01 ` Leo
2008-02-29 21:53 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
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