From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50978 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap slowness Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:55:18 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048352196 20709 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 16:56:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sat Mar 22 17:56:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wmIL-0005Np-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:56:33 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18wmHs-0006fR-00; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:56:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:57:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from stlport.com (stlport.com [64.39.31.56]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20324 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:56:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from [146.115.123.42] (account dave HELO PENGUIN.boost-consulting.com) by stlport.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 213431; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 08:55:47 -0800 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:51:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50978 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50978 Simon Josefsson writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> Simon Josefsson writes: >> >> What specifically are you referring to? I don't see the words >> "downloading", "rendering", or "imap" in there. > > I was referring to profiling Gnus to find out what part of it is > taking time OK, I'm happy to try that, but see below. > (but it is most likely MIME decoding and displaying that > takes time, see below). > >>> If downloading is slower than in other clients, something is buggy, >> >> It sure seems like downloading is the problem; the attachment isn't >> displayed except as a MIME button. > > Ah, but the message is still copied around. Collapsing it into a > button is only done at the final moment of display. Yes, this is > inefficient. Nobody has worked on fixing this yet though... Seriously? It only takes a fraction of a second to copy 1.6M on this machine. When I look at the status line and see imap read: 774K with the numbers spinning upwards at a rate of only about 15K per second I grow highly doubtful that it's doing anything other than reading data from my IMAP server. If you still want me to profile something, just say the word. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com