Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers.

[Daniel M. <xt@nm.ru>]

>I used to do that.  Based on a previous thread in the ding list about slow
>presentation of a group, I now have the following comment and setting in my
>.gnus file:
>
>    (setq
>     ;; Show headers of previous messages in a thread
>     ;; Don't do this; it greatly slows down presentation of the group
>     gnus-fetch-old-headers			nil
>    )
>
>My recollection was that the difference in speed, disabling this, was
>remarkable.

I tried setting that variable as you had advised, but it didn't have 
an impact on the speed. If I understand the documentation correctly,
this variable has an impact only if there are 'read' articles - usually 
Gnus will construct threads using old, read articles if there are some
unread articles in the thread. Setting that variable to 'nil' will prevent
Gnus from loading the read articles. But in my case, almost all
of the articles are unread - because of that, there is no noticeable 
difference.

Daniel.