Re: Gnus as slow as molasses

[Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>   > The problem isn't opening the group as I rarely select more that 100
>   > articles. It's selecting the first article once I'm in the group.
> 
> Amazing.  I could understand that it takes a while to fetch the
> headers (if you have fetch old headers set to t, Gnus will fetch all
> headers even if you do 1 RET on a group).  But apparently, fetching
> headers is fast for you, as is displaying the summary buffer.  Only
> when hitting RET or SPC or mouse-2 on an article, that takes so long,
> right?

Yes. But the second article selected is "fast" whether it is above or
below the first selected article..

> Is your ~/Mail accessed via NFS by your Gnus?  

No.

> Or.  Hm.  Wait a
> minute.  Are you using nnfolder?  Maybe Gnus needs to load the whole
> group into memory as one file in order to display the first article?

I'm using nnml so I didn't think it would have to do this. There's
something it does when the first article is selected in a new Summary
buffer. See my reply to Hrvoje Niksic for profiling results.

Thanks.
-- 
Eze Ogwuma