Curious performance problem.

Curious performance problem.

[Jack Twilley]

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I upgraded to Oort Gnus 0.16 and lost my .newsrc.  It needed to be
rebuilt from scratch, so that took me a bit.  When I started up again,
I noticed a huge huge performance problem when starting up Oort.  The
"k-meter" displayed when starting up was moving very, very slowly --
one k every second or two -- but once I got going, I could go to
this newsgroup at quimby very quickly, and I am reasonably fast at
accessing my default news server.  

My ISP offers a secondary news server, and I can access that very
quickly when it's a secondary server in Gnus.  I changed my .gnus.el
to use this secondary news server as my primary news server in Gnus,
and I got the same very, very slow behavior.  This tells me that it's
a Gnus thing.

Has anyone else observed this problem?  What other information should
I collect to help resolve this issue?

Jack.
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Re: Curious performance problem.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org> writes:

> I upgraded to Oort Gnus 0.16 and lost my .newsrc.

Yup.  Fix in Oort Gnus v0.17 (i. e., CVS).

> It needed to be rebuilt from scratch, so that took me a bit.  When I
> started up again, I noticed a huge huge performance problem when
> starting up Oort.  The "k-meter" displayed when starting up was
> moving very, very slowly -- one k every second or two -- but once I
> got going, I could go to this newsgroup at quimby very quickly, and
> I am reasonably fast at accessing my default news server.

So the problem is that it's very slow fetching the active file?  Is
`B nntp some.server' equally slow?

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