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

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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?

All my groups are level 3, except nndrafts and its companion whos name
I forgot for the moment. Which are level 2.

I have dozens of nnml and nntp groups all level 3.

But, all may be fixed.  I just went thru a process of shedding 2
foreign servers.  An old defunct server for opera's newsgroups.  And a
server (apn forte-inc) that just ran out yesterday.

Even after deleting all the groups under both servers, I could not
kill them in server buffer.  Finally resorted to editing .newsrc.eld
by removing all references to either of those two servers.

After restart, I tried the 'g' in group buffer, and it worked just
fine.  It may have been a fluke and may be too soon to crow about it
but I think that cleanup has somehow fixed the problem.

I don't believe it could be the apn server since that just lapsed
today.  But possibly getting rid of the old opera server may have done
it. 

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.