From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25087 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc Aurel <4-tea-2@a42.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: How many days will it need to read a huge active file? Date: 13 Sep 1999 09:14:43 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162537 12217 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:08:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:08:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24639 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:18:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB17320; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:18:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:17:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA16634 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:17:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from bong.a42.de (qmailr@bong.a42.de [194.97.54.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA24632 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 12842 invoked by uid 501); 13 Sep 1999 07:16:34 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-PGP-KeyID: 768/7DB556C3 1536/733DF2CD X-Face: #&x$U{}8a]?xM*.g$p.pp#!*O8v{tD$bYnec}Z*Mik55}H8k8~sCwN,C}s)8mej43?<6k}]Hsuf58O?*+k?FVvA!`H>$tvXNLG|2qvB|ySlMOeL}"Pl/g&omza6Z)A3b|1X5{jF,5qh;\%VR1V-%A~iOq_ X-Attribution: 42 In-Reply-To: Daniel Monjar's message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:51:08 +0000" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) XEmacs/21.1 (Arches) Original-Lines: 36 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25087 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25087 Hi, I seem to have a problem with an exceptionally slow machine and a huge newsfeed. I'm trying to get rid of my local newsserver (as I'm now the only person to read news on this system), so I set up pgnus with the Agent to get news from my provider's newsserver. At the moment I'm always starting pgnus as 'gnus-unplugged', followed by 'J j' (to plug in) and '2 g' (to retrieve my mail, which I read with pgnus exclusively). Whenever I start pgnus plugged, it connects to my provider's newsserver and all I see for the next couple of hours is a NNTP counter slowly increasing to 10+ MB. Then XEmacs sits there, eating about half of the available virtual memory (easily in excess of 60MB) and almost idling at less than 10% of the processor load. I have already tried waiting more than a day (I imagined that it was a one-time-only process). In this state, XEmacs doesn't refresh its display, nor does it handle a C-g within a couple of minutes (I'm always impatient, so I 'kill -9' it). At work, I use almost the same setup with the same version of pgnus on a machine with lots more horsepower and network connectivity and it works just fine. Any idea how to find out what exactly pgnus is doing while it's not doing anything for me? My home machine is a K6-200 with 64MB (+128MB swap) connected to the net by ISDN running Red Hat Linux 5.2, the work machine is some PII-450 with 128MB on a LAN. Any hints? -- Marc The NSA is now funding research not only in cryptography, but in all areas of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new research opportunities, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and ask for one.