From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15074 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus as slow as molasses Date: 25 Apr 1998 06:04:07 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154167 19975 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:49:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03699 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 22:08:01 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05298 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 01:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAH12626; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:07:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:05:36 -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 AAA12612 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:05:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 8726 invoked by uid 504); 25 Apr 1998 05:05:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8723 invoked from network); 25 Apr 1998 05:05:07 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.50.75) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 1998 05:05:07 -0000 Original-Received: from typhoon.ncc.co.uk (zcaceog@bh-cw01-059.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.51.59]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA27000; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:05:04 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA19695; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:04:08 +0100 Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "17 Apr 1998 13:12:14 +0200" Original-Lines: 51 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15074 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > string-match 264 17.647 > > directory-files 261 17.447 > > match-string 168 11.230 > > Does this mean that `directory-files' is called 261 times? (I'm not > familiar with the output of `profile-keystrokes'.) I'm sorry, I don't know either. I was told to try this by Hrvoje Niksic, see the message below. I couldn't find any mention of it in the XEmacs manuals. > Anyways, I think the culprit is `nnheader-article-to-file-alist', > which is Slow in huge groups if you have jka-compr loaded. With or without this opening the first article is very slow. I've found that not having comresssion in the .emacs file decreases the time by ~33.3% however this is not the ~99.4% needed to remove the problem. Hrvoje Niksic writes: > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > This additional information was sent to someone as a reply. > > > > 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. > > > > I have this in my .gnus file so I get to choose which article to > > select: > > ;; Don't select the first article automatically > > (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil) > > > > Whichever article I select then takes about 10-15 seconds to > > display. All articles selected after that are almost instantaneous > > whether they are above or below the first article. > > Under XEmacs 20.4 you can use `M-x profile-key-sequence', press a key > (say RET in the Group buffer), and get the results using > `M-x profile-results'. It should give you an idea of where the time > is being spent. > -- Eze Ogwuma