Re: two agent nits

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>>
>>> OOPs.. I got the notion somewhere it would be on by default.
>>>
>>>>> Is it necessary to delete all .agentview still.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps, I did it on all groups.  Perhaps I should have only done so
>>>> for a few and debug why it didn't work for others...
>>>
>>> I can report that it seems to be working as expected without having
>>> done anything to .agentview files.  Once I set
>>> gnus-agent-consider-all-articles to t and ran Js... well gnus is
>>> still chewing up the inodes as I write.
>>
>> Simon, I'm seeing lots of time chewed up when running Js.  Even
>> though I'm fairly close to up with newsfeed.  That is, I may have
>> 100-200 messages counting all groups to download.  But I see massive
>> amounts of time go by when running Js.  Judging by the lack of
>> activity on my asdsl modem lights it doesn't seem to be conversing
>> with nntp server.
>>
>> Are you seeing any delays.
>
> Yup.  It delays while saying "Fetching headers" but no headers are
> transfered over the network.  I think it is simply processing the
> headers internally.  I'm sure it can be optimized, profiling it with
> elp would be the first towards that.  My results below, but doing M-x
> load RET gnus-agent.el RET first would probably have generated more
> information.

This looks pretty wild...

> gnus-point-at-eol      500918      3.1774099999  6.343...e-06

Simon, what is the syntax for running that profile?  I couldn't get
even a remote clue from C-h f elp<spc><spc>.  And was discouraged to
find that an `i' (index) search on `elp' in emacs info pages just
brings up lots of hits help `help'.

`s' search gives no hits on `[^h]elp-'