From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66409 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slowness in entering group Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:53:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87y793xwe8.fsf@gmx.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204322030 5871 80.91.229.12 (29 Feb 2008 21:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:53:50 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14900@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Feb 29 22:54:16 2008 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 4.50) id 1JVDB9-0002Iu-ED for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:54:07 +0100 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 1JVD9l-0002pj-Gs; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:52:41 -0600 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 1JVD9j-0002pS-K7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:52:39 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JVD9c-00039N-Vf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:52:39 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JVD9i-00079c-00 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:52:38 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Feb 2008 21:52:00 -0000 Original-Received: from p54864B1D.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO debian) [84.134.75.29] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 29 Feb 2008 22:52:00 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18rwZheX5graRChidXuBu5jb6o1bC5QJFVMddat13 bEyGP/81Jz3oAR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:01:27 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66409 Archived-At: 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