From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14998 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus as slow as molasses Date: 17 Apr 1998 16:29:32 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ra2wn5gn.fsf@slowfox.do.uunet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154101 19486 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27599 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:20:09 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03969 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:26:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAN21366; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17123 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:21:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 7918 invoked by uid 504); 17 Apr 1998 16:21:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7915 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1998 16:21:16 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.32.10) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 1998 16:21:16 -0000 Original-Received: from typhoon.ncc.co.uk (zcaceog@bh-cw04-013.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.52.13]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA14664; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:21:07 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA11220; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:20:24 +0100 Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "17 Apr 1998 11:49:12 +0200" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Original-Lines: 32 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14998 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14998 Kai Grossjohann writes: > Eze Ogwuma 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