From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25742 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pop3 *very* slow? Date: 07 Oct 1999 20:14:34 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199910072154.OAA19115@oberon.dnai.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163074 15614 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:17:54 +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 UAA07223 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:19:48 -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 TAB01006; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:16:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 07 Oct 1999 19:16:34 -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 TAA12239 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:16:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from peorth.gweep.net (ratinox@delphi.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.116.177]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07198 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:14:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01351; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:14:35 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: Dave Liebreich's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:54:37 -0700" Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25742 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25742 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Dave Liebreich on Thu, 07 Oct 1999 | and it's *very* slow. Are the following lines in pop3.el really necessary? One, yes, those sleeps are necessary. Without them Emacs hangs on large messages. Two, the first sleep does not come up until the message being downloaded is ~20kB. By comparison, the average message on ding is between 4kB and 8kB, less than half that initial threshold. Given that, the 1-second pause a 20kB message incurs (and the 5-second pause a 500kB message causes) is negligible. Three, the Numero Uno cause of "slow" POP is not the client, but because mail is being left on the server. Every time you open your POP drop, the server must make a copy of the spool file to properly lock it. The larger the spool file, the longer it takes to copy, and the slower your response from the server will be. Try deleting those messages if there are any and see if that helps. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE3/Tdqgl+vIlSVSNkRAuKVAJsF7GckxB1vsXqWewblJJSNIH9c8ACdFKby 222SoFb0YJx1D/VyWpJMrHw= =nmnY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rat \ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek shelter and cover PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ head.