From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50966 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap slowness Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:21:12 -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 1048296144 12981 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 01:22:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sat Mar 22 02:22:23 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 18wXiJ-0003NF-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:22:23 +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 18wXhr-0004Jw-00; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:21:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:22:58 -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 TAA18887 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:22:49 -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 213241; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:21:41 -0800 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu, jas@extundo.com In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:54:53 +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:50966 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50966 Simon Josefsson writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> I have a fast connection here (10Mb/s cable modem) and my IMAP server >> seems perfectly snappy and responsive when I use other newsreaders, >> but GNUs is just painfully slow, especially when downloading a message >> with a large attachment. A 1.6MB attachment can take minutes! >> >> Is there anything magical I can do to make this go faster? I'd even >> settle for the mildly paranormal as long as it speeds things up! > > Is it downloading or article rendering that takes time? See the > troubleshooting section in the manual for how to tell. What specifically are you referring to? I don't see the words "downloading", "rendering", or "imap" in there. > 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. > but viewing large messages is known to be slow in Gnus since the > article is copied around a few times. > > Hm. Zero-copy would be nice, but would probably require some new emacs > primitive. Like a text overlay to inline one buffer into another. You're way out of my league here. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com