From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55101 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: two agent nits Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:54:29 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070596487 12864 80.91.224.253 (5 Dec 2003 03:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 03:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3641@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 05 04:54:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AS73E-0003MV-00 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:54:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AS737-0001dG-00; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:54:37 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AS733-0001dB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:54:33 -0600 Original-Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.103]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B5E3A003B for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:54:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from reader.local.net0 (adsl-68-74-73-211.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net [68.74.73.211]) by pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB53sWBv115108 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from reader.local.net0 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by reader.local.net0 (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hB53sU3C030656 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:54:30 -0600 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.net0 (8.12.8/8.12.3/Submit) id hB53sT5n030654; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:54:29 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.net0: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:25:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55101 Simon Josefsson writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Harry Putnam 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. 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-'