Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[kspost]

I upgraded from gnus 5.10.2 to 5.10.6.  It is noticeably slower when I
press `g' to get new news.  It takes about 4 seconds for 5.10.2 and
about 20 seconds for 5.10.6.  Running strace on the emacs process when
I press g shows it running a stat on the .agentview file in all of the
newsgroup directories.  For example, here is some of the stat lines:

lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/uk/tech/digital-tv/crypt/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/linux/debian/devel/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/microsoft/public/jp/officexp/word/.agentview",0xbfffdde0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

I don't see the same stat lines with 5.10.2.  Has anyone else seen this?

  Keith

Re: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[Kevin Greiner]

kspost@news.ti.com writes:

> I upgraded from gnus 5.10.2 to 5.10.6.  It is noticeably slower when I
> press `g' to get new news.  It takes about 4 seconds for 5.10.2 and
> about 20 seconds for 5.10.6.  Running strace on the emacs process when
> I press g shows it running a stat on the .agentview file in all of the
> newsgroup directories.  For example, here is some of the stat lines:
>
> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/uk/tech/digital-tv/crypt/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/linux/debian/devel/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/microsoft/public/jp/officexp/word/.agentview",0xbfffdde0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> I don't see the same stat lines with 5.10.2.  Has anyone else seen this?

Keith,
This is a known issue.  I'm testing the patch right now.  I should be
releasing it soon.

Kevin

FIXED: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[Kevin Greiner]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> kspost@news.ti.com writes:
>
>> I upgraded from gnus 5.10.2 to 5.10.6.  It is noticeably slower when I
>> press `g' to get new news.  It takes about 4 seconds for 5.10.2 and
>> about 20 seconds for 5.10.6.  Running strace on the emacs process when
>> I press g shows it running a stat on the .agentview file in all of the
>> newsgroup directories.  For example, here is some of the stat lines:
>>
>> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/uk/tech/digital-tv/crypt/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/linux/debian/devel/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/microsoft/public/jp/officexp/word/.agentview",0xbfffdde0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>
>> I don't see the same stat lines with 5.10.2.  Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Keith,
> This is a known issue.  I'm testing the patch right now.  I should be
> releasing it soon.

The patch has been checked in.

Kevin

Re: FIXED: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[Andreas Jaeger]

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Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> kspost@news.ti.com writes:
>>
>>> I upgraded from gnus 5.10.2 to 5.10.6.  It is noticeably slower when I
>>> press `g' to get new news.  It takes about 4 seconds for 5.10.2 and
>>> about 20 seconds for 5.10.6.  Running strace on the emacs process when
>>> I press g shows it running a stat on the .agentview file in all of the
>>> newsgroup directories.  For example, here is some of the stat lines:
>>>
>>> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/uk/tech/digital-tv/crypt/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/linux/debian/devel/.agentview",0xbfffe380) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>> lstat64("/home/keith/News/agent/nntp/news.ti.com/microsoft/public/jp/officexp/word/.agentview",0xbfffdde0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>>
>>> I don't see the same stat lines with 5.10.2.  Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>> Keith,
>> This is a known issue.  I'm testing the patch right now.  I should be
>> releasing it soon.
>
> The patch has been checked in.

Also for Gnus 5.10?  Or will there never be a 5.10.7?

Andreas
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Re: FIXED: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[Sebastian D.B. Krause]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> wrote:
> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>> This is a known issue.  I'm testing the patch right now.  I
>> should be releasing it soon.
>
> The patch has been checked in.

Can you please provide a backport of this patch for Gnus 5.10.6?
Your patch checked in to No Gnus on that days is quite big and I
don't know if it's all relevant to only this bug. With a backport
we could at least fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231739
so that I don't have to use No Gnus already. :)

Thanks,
Sebastian

Re: FIXED: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[Simon Josefsson]

krause@sdbk.de (Sebastian D.B. Krause) writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> wrote:
>> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>>> This is a known issue.  I'm testing the patch right now.  I
>>> should be releasing it soon.
>>
>> The patch has been checked in.
>
> Can you please provide a backport of this patch for Gnus 5.10.6?

(Generalizing the issue somewhat:)

Do we want more 5.10 releases?  I think so.  There isn't a v5-10
branch as far as I can tell, but I guess it could be created based on
v5-10-6.  Ok to create it, Lars?  Then we could apply the above back
port.  I think there was one other largish bug in 5.10.6 too, but I
don't recall exactly when it was discussed.  I guess there doesn't
have to be a proper 5.10.7 soonish, a CVS branch for 5.10 should
suffice for Debian, the XEmacs package etc.

Re: FIXED: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news

[Sebastian D.B. Krause]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> Do we want more 5.10 releases?  I think so.  There isn't a v5-10
> branch as far as I can tell, but I guess it could be created based on
> v5-10-6.  Ok to create it, Lars?

I don't think that he would have anything against this when we have
such big bugs. But being on holidays right now, he won't answer you
for at least we week. :-/

v5-10 branch created (was: FIXED: Gnus 5.10.6 slow getting new news)

[Sebastian D.B. Krause]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> krause@sdbk.de (Sebastian D.B. Krause) writes:
>> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> wrote:
>>> The patch has been checked in.
>>
>> Can you please provide a backport of this patch for Gnus 5.10.6?
>
> (Generalizing the issue somewhat:)
>
> Do we want more 5.10 releases?  I think so.  There isn't a v5-10
> branch as far as I can tell, but I guess it could be created based
> on v5-10-6.  Ok to create it, Lars?  Then we could apply the above
> back port.  I think there was one other largish bug in 5.10.6 too,
> but I don't recall exactly when it was discussed.  I guess there
> doesn't have to be a proper 5.10.7 soonish, a CVS branch for 5.10
> should suffice for Debian, the XEmacs package etc.

After another email of today, Lars has just created a v5-10 branch:

http://quimby.gnus.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gnus/?only_with_tag=v5-10

So development of Gnus 5.10 can continue now and a backport of the
patch for No Gnus above would be nice. :)