From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61378 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Leaving gnus is slow Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:21:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <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 1132154818 22358 80.91.229.2 (16 Nov 2005 15:26:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9910@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 16 16:26:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcP6t-00065E-4J for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:22:07 +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 1EcP6o-0006UY-00; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:22:02 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EcP6d-0006UT-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:21:51 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EcP6X-0000co-D5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:21:51 -0600 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EcP6W-0000yR-00 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:21:44 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se [217.215.27.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jAGFLbRl000401 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:21:38 +0100 Original-To: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:051116:ding@gnus.org::t/S5+E/s69Dibe5F:0yhI X-Hashcash: 1:21:051116:andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de::EIcEwvqdVupmnqW6:I34e In-Reply-To: <87hdadm1x2.fsf@k75.linux.bogus> (Andreas J. Koenig's message of "Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:28:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61378 Archived-At: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) writes: > 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: What does profiling using elp indicate? > 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? Based on your strace output, it doesn't seem like it is writing any files. It is probably computing or waiting for something. FWIW, quitting Gnus is fast here. Which I notice every time I accidentally do it...