Solved: Re: Slow and big Gnus 5.8.x

[Anders Melchiorsen <postmaster@and.nospam.kampsax.k-net.dk>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> wrote:

> Anders Melchiorsen <postmaster@and.nospam.kampsax.k-net.dk> writes:
> > Especially when I enter a group, Gnus is slower in generating the
> > summary and it is virtually impossible for me to enter groups with,
> > say, 2000 articles (since Emacs grows to an image size that my 64MB of
> > RAM simply cannot handle).
> 
> I don't know why you'd have that much trouble.  My normal Gnus

Shame on me.

While I did produce some depressing timings to back up my case, I also
found out that I was in fact using an uncompiled Gnus. Compiling it
did improve both memory usage and speed considerably. I guess I should
have done that two months ago...

So, the lesson learned was that one thing to remember when installing
a new Gnus is to correct your paths :-/.

Thanks for your help nevertheless.

> On the other hand, I notice you're using a recent XEmacs 21.  Is it
> perhaps compiled with debugging enabled?  You will see some fairly
> drastic speed improvement if you ./configure --error-checking=none
> --debug=no.

I am using the RPM from www.xemacs.org - I suppose they are properly
built?

-- 
Regards, Anders
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