From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51112 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap slowness Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:33:33 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <867kagnxsp.fsf@halny.zapto.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049114071 3855 80.91.224.249 (31 Mar 2003 12:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Mon Mar 31 14:34:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18zyUf-0000zx-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18zyU9-0006tp-00; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:33:57 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:35:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA12472 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:34:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h2VCXXXK003144 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:33:34 +0200 Original-To: beaker@iavmb.pl (Krzysztof =?iso-8859-2?q?J=EAdruczyk?=) Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030331:beaker@iavmb.pl:c6e28041c0ce54f3 X-Hashcash: 0:030331:beaker@iavmb.pl:c6e28041c0ce54f3 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030331:ding@hpc.uh.edu:38a20abba10310a1 X-Hashcash: 0:030331:ding@hpc.uh.edu:38a20abba10310a1 In-Reply-To: <867kagnxsp.fsf@halny.zapto.org> (Krzysztof =?iso-8859-2?q?J=EAdruczyk's?= message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:13:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51112 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51112 beaker@iavmb.pl (Krzysztof Jędruczyk) writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> Gnus do send several SEARCH commands, and this is quite inefficient, >> but I believe fixing this would require changing the Gnus backend >> interface, and that means work. Several servers implement flag >> searching without opening all articles though, so many people don't >> have this problem. > > I don't think this has anything to do with the way gnus communicates > with IMAP server. I use Gnus at work, where I have dual-boot > Win2k/FreeBSD box. On Windoze big messages download very slowly, but > when I reboot to FreeBSD (both OS' have GNU-Emacs 21.2, Oort Gnus 0.15 > installed) download is an order of magnitude faster. I tried > increasing TCP window size in Windows (I did little tcpdump inspection > and suspected that to be a problem), but it didn't help at all. So I > just let it be this way. But agreed - this is a major pain-in-the-ass > for w32+gnus+IMAP users... Perhaps it is two unrelated problems, since David said it became slow on large attachments which suggest the server do open the messages for SEARCH commands. But I wouldn't be surprised if the network stuff in Emacs for Windows was inefficient somehow. Report it as a Emacs bug?