is it faster? :)

is it faster? :)

[Maciej Matysiak]

hello,

i've just upgraded from pgnus 0.80 to 0.95 and noticed that everything 
works faster. checking mail, actions, everything. is it possible or is
it just mine imagination? :)

or can it be just because i restarted xemacs after 32 days uptime and
it doesn't take so much memory and stuff on my poor box (p120/64mb)?

somehow happier,
 m.m.
-- 
 use gnus not guns!

Re: is it faster? :)

[Russ Allbery]

Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> or can it be just because i restarted xemacs after 32 days uptime and it
> doesn't take so much memory and stuff on my poor box (p120/64mb)?

I generally find that emacs's memory footprint continually increases until
I restart it (albeit slowly), and that it starts getting noticeably slower
as the memory footprint gets larger, even if the system isn't swapping.

I usually exit out and restart every few days because of this.  I don't
think it's necessarily a leak; it's just that over that period of time I
end up doing something or other that uses a whole bunch of memory.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: is it faster? :)

[Anil B. Somayaji]

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Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

> i've just upgraded from pgnus 0.80 to 0.95 and noticed that everything 
> works faster. checking mail, actions, everything. is it possible or is
> it just mine imagination? :)

I don't think it is.  I just recently upgraded from 0.92 to 0.95, and
I have definitely noticed a speedup, particularly in starting up with
gnus-no-server.  After incorporating mail, it almost immediately goes
to the group screen, instead of hanging for a few seconds.  (I have
400+ groups, so I always assumed that was the cause.  I'm happy to see
that things can be faster!)

Does this have anything to do with the new graphical logo under GNU
Emacs?  Whatever the case, I like it!

  --Anil

- -- 
Anil Somayaji (soma@cs.unm.edu)
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~soma
+1 505 872 3150

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Re: is it faster? :)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> I usually exit out and restart every few days because of this.  I don't
> think it's necessarily a leak; it's just that over that period of time I
> end up doing something or other that uses a whole bunch of memory.

Jabuht -- sometimes an Emacs containing Gnus grows to, like, 60GB,
which has to be a bug somewhere.  In Gnus, most likely.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen