gnus 5.5, ntemacs, .gnus-cache

gnus 5.5, ntemacs, .gnus-cache

[Fabrice POPINEAU]

Hi,

I have this problem for a long time now. When I run 'M-x gnus', there
are little chances that the *Group* buffer will ever display. Instead,
after getting newsgroups by nntp and reading mail (using nnml), gnus
is blocked with the message "updating .gnus-cache" or something like
that. Emacs is running, at least taskmgr is saying it uses 90% of cpu,
but it never stops. If I hit 'C-g', and run 'M-x gnus' again,
everything is fine.

What's the problem ?

Thanks,

Fabrice Popineau

Re: gnus 5.5, ntemacs, .gnus-cache

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> writes:

> I have this problem for a long time now. When I run 'M-x gnus', there
> are little chances that the *Group* buffer will ever display. Instead,
> after getting newsgroups by nntp and reading mail (using nnml), gnus
> is blocked with the message "updating .gnus-cache" or something like
> that. Emacs is running, at least taskmgr is saying it uses 90% of cpu,
> but it never stops. If I hit 'C-g', and run 'M-x gnus' again,
> everything is fine.
> 
> What's the problem ?

Sounds like Gnus is trying to update the cache active file.  Do you
have a gazillion files in your cache?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: gnus 5.5, ntemacs, .gnus-cache

[Fabrice POPINEAU]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    Lars> Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> writes:

    Fabrice> I have this problem for a long time now. When I run 'M-x
    Fabrice> gnus', there are little chances that the *Group* buffer
    Fabrice> will ever display. Instead, after getting newsgroups by
    Fabrice> nntp and reading mail (using nnml), gnus is blocked with
    Fabrice> the message "updating .gnus-cache" or something like
    Fabrice> that. Emacs is running, at least taskmgr is saying it
    Fabrice> uses 90% of cpu, but it never stops. If I hit 'C-g', and
    Fabrice> run 'M-x gnus' again, everything is fine.

    Lars> Sounds like Gnus is trying to update the cache active file.
    Lars> Do you have a gazillion files in your cache?

11/05/97  05:11p               429,201 .newsrc.eld
11/05/97  02:42p               429,002 .newsrc.eld~
11/05/97  02:42p                94,842 .newsrc~
09/25/97  10:34a        <DIR>          .nneething
11/06/97  08:08a                44,875 .nnmail-cache

Not so much, but I have lots of nnml mail files, and I'm afraid gnus
is trying to cache them. I have just change 'gnus-uncacheable-groups'
to "^nnml".

Fabrice

Re: gnus 5.5, ntemacs, .gnus-cache

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> writes:

>     Fabrice> I have this problem for a long time now. When I run 'M-x
>     Fabrice> gnus', there are little chances that the *Group* buffer
>     Fabrice> will ever display. Instead, after getting newsgroups by
>     Fabrice> nntp and reading mail (using nnml), gnus is blocked with
>     Fabrice> the message "updating .gnus-cache" or something like
>     Fabrice> that. Emacs is running, at least taskmgr is saying it
>     Fabrice> uses 90% of cpu, but it never stops. If I hit 'C-g', and
>     Fabrice> run 'M-x gnus' again, everything is fine.

[...]

> Not so much, but I have lots of nnml mail files, and I'm afraid gnus
> is trying to cache them. I have just change 'gnus-uncacheable-groups'
> to "^nnml".

Try to `(setq debug-on-quit t)' and then `C-g' when it hangs.  Mail me
the resulting backtrace.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: gnus 5.5, ntemacs, .gnus-cache

[Fabrice POPINEAU]

More information:

- same thing after (setq gnus-uncacheable-groups "^nnml")

- message is "loading gnus-cache ... done"
  and gnus fails to display the groups buffer.

Fabrice Popineau