Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers.

[Jorge Godoy <godoy@ieee.org>]

Daniel M. <xt@nm.ru> writes:

> I noticed that even when I enter a group with a relatively small 
> amount of headers - in my case, 12000 for comp.lang.lisp, it takes 
> Gnus a very long time to thread/load them (headers are already in 
> the spool - they were downloaded previously by the Gnus) - 3 minutes 
> and 100% CPU for the duration of that period.

It doesn't happen here, but I have an nntp server (leafnode) on my LAN.
Access here is almost instantaneous, except when I happen to get an
article in HTML or some not-found-on-keyservers PGP key use to sign
messages.

> Am I doing something wrong, or is it a fundamental issue (elisp is too
> slow? something in the core of X/Emacs?) which renders Gnus unusable
> for anything more then a very small groups?

I dunno what you're doing or how, but here the reality is different.  It
looks more like your Forte Agent. 

> BTW, listing of all active groups (zombie, killed groups - I am not 
> sure how I am supposed to call them. In effect, it is the list of all 
> groups carried by the server) also takes a lot of time - almost a full 
> minute, although there are only ~32000 groups and the file containing
> them resides on the HD. I even tried to sort that file, but it didn't 
> help :(.

Weird.

It seems you're not using the local file, then...  It is faster here and
the amount of groups is also big (Usenet + a brazilian network with a
few thousand groups).

Have you tried removing your configuration and redoing it? 



Be seeing you,
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Godoy.     <godoy@ieee.org>