From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50980 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap slowness Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:12:26 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048353194 24739 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 17:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sat Mar 22 18:13:10 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 18wmYQ-0006Qf-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:13:10 +0100 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 18wmY8-0006vK-00; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:12:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:13:55 -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 LAA20439 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:13:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2MHCQZG026308 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:12:28 +0100 Original-To: David Abrahams Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030322:dave@boost-consulting.com:f1ae1b4bb4390700 X-Hashcash: 0:030322:dave@boost-consulting.com:f1ae1b4bb4390700 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030322:ding@hpc.uh.edu:8a5153316cae0504 X-Hashcash: 0:030322:ding@hpc.uh.edu:8a5153316cae0504 In-Reply-To: (David Abrahams's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:55:18 -0500") 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:50980 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50980 David Abrahams writes: >> (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... > > Seriously? It only takes a fraction of a second to copy 1.6M on this > machine. Between buffers inside emacs? > When I look at the status line and see > > imap read: 774K > > with the numbers spinning upwards at a rate of only about 15K per > second I grow highly doubtful that it's doing anything other than > reading data from my IMAP server. Hm, yes, this sounds as if it is the downloading that takes time. Hm, maybe it is due to subprocesses in emacs under Windows. Please try profiling the imap and nnimap packages to see where it is spending the time. Maybe the gnus package too, so that the total time is available too (display probably still takes some non-negligible time).