From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@hpc.uh.edu
Subject: Re: nnimap slowness
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluof44xdmm.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk7estcvr.fsf@boost-consulting.com> (David Abrahams's message of "Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:21:12 -0500")
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>>
>>> I have a fast connection here (10Mb/s cable modem) and my IMAP server
>>> seems perfectly snappy and responsive when I use other newsreaders,
>>> but GNUs is just painfully slow, especially when downloading a message
>>> with a large attachment. A 1.6MB attachment can take minutes!
>>>
>>> Is there anything magical I can do to make this go faster? I'd even
>>> settle for the mildly paranormal as long as it speeds things up!
>>
>> Is it downloading or article rendering that takes time? See the
>> troubleshooting section in the manual for how to tell.
>
> What specifically are you referring to? I don't see the words
> "downloading", "rendering", or "imap" in there.
I was referring to profiling Gnus to find out what part of it is
taking time (but it is most likely MIME decoding and displaying that
takes time, see below).
>> If downloading is slower than in other clients, something is buggy,
>
> It sure seems like downloading is the problem; the attachment isn't
> displayed except as a MIME button.
Ah, but the message is still copied around. Collapsing it into a
button is only done at the final moment of display. Yes, this is
inefficient. Nobody has worked on fixing this yet though...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-22 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-21 21:51 David Abrahams
2003-03-22 0:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-22 1:21 ` David Abrahams
2003-03-22 3:51 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-03-22 16:55 ` David Abrahams
2003-03-22 17:12 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-22 17:18 ` David Abrahams
2003-03-22 17:52 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-22 18:48 ` David Abrahams
2003-03-30 19:20 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-30 22:12 ` David Abrahams
2003-03-31 12:30 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-31 22:31 ` David Abrahams
2003-04-01 11:20 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-31 1:13 ` Krzysztof Jędruczyk
2003-03-31 12:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-31 16:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-03-31 17:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-03-31 17:25 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-04-13 13:45 ` Krzysztof Jędruczyk
2003-04-18 13:50 ` David Abrahams
2003-04-18 15:16 ` David Abrahams
2003-04-19 18:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-18 15:44 ` David Abrahams
2003-04-19 18:35 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-20 9:28 ` David Abrahams
2003-04-18 19:01 ` A.J. Rossini
2003-04-18 19:19 ` David Abrahams
2003-04-19 6:28 ` Steinar Bang
2003-04-19 20:07 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-03-23 3:20 ` David Abrahams
2003-03-22 18:47 ` Jody Klymak
2003-03-24 9:12 ` Niklas Morberg
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