From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87585 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Making IMAP fasterer Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:57:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87wpkvw70r.fsf@math.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497536431 13390 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 14:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:20:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (darwin) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35799@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 15 16:20:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.34]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVdK-0003FY-S3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:20:26 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id c850ef2f-51d5-11e7-8ed1-b499baa2b07a; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dLVcT-0003rq-4H; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dLPEF-0000iB-7z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dLPED-0003IJ-MU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dLPEC-0001Fe-9C for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLPE4-00038N-Fw for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:29:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:FweAQ/Ry7ciBuEznD2m7QoeR53w= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87585 Archived-At: on Sat Jul 09 2016, Jaspn Tibbitts wrote: > I'm on vacation and instead of my usual method of ssh-ing into my work > machine and running emacs in a screen session, I thought I'd try setting > up gnus locally. And it works, but it's pretty slow. I'm running > Fedora 24, with emacs 25.0.94 the version of gnus which comes with it > (5.13). > > I think that the issue is that the path to my IMAP server has a bit of > latency, which isn't surprising considering I'm on a Norwegian island > not far from the arctic circle. I have always had gnus-asynchronous > set, and I remember in the past it used to flash messages about the > articles it was prefetching. I haven't seen that in a while, and it > doesn't look like gnus is doing any article prefetching. So selecting > an article takes a couple of seconds while it does a bunch of round > trips. > > In addition, gnus-group-get-new-news always tells me "nnimap read NNNk > from imap.math.uh.edu (initial sync of 4 groups; please wait)" while it > fetches about 400k in total. This takes about ten seconds every time i > hit 'g', which I'm trying to condition myself not to do. > > So, does anyone have any tips for making it run a bit smoother? I use http://onmsg.github.io -- -Dave