Disabling the Agent?

Disabling the Agent?

[Gregory Novak]

I once enabled the agent with (gnus-agentize), but I've seen others on
this mailing list say that the agent causes a big slowdown.  Certain
operations in Gnus are slow for me, and I'd like to test whether the
agent is in fact causing the slowdown.  I removed the (gnus-agentize)
line from my .gnus file, but Gnus seems to remember that the line was
once there ("plugged" appears on the modeline).  

What do I have to do to make Gnus pretend that the agent never
existed?  Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Thank you,
Greg

Re: Disabling the Agent?

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Gregory Novak wrote:

> I once enabled the agent with (gnus-agentize), but I've seen others on
> this mailing list say that the agent causes a big slowdown.  Certain
> operations in Gnus are slow for me, and I'd like to test whether the
> agent is in fact causing the slowdown.  I removed the (gnus-agentize)
> line from my .gnus file, but Gnus seems to remember that the line was
> once there ("plugged" appears on the modeline).  

,----[ <f1> v gnus-agent RET ]
| gnus-agent is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| 
| Documentation:
| Whether we want to use the Gnus agent or not.
| 
| You may customize gnus-agent to disable its use.  However, some
| back ends have started to use the agent as a client-side cache.
| Disabling the agent may result in noticeable loss of performance.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

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