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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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