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[Dr. Pete Gieser]

I'm just curious if anyone knows why it takes so long to jump
to a group that is not subscribed to.  Using XEmacs 19.13 and
sgnus 0.77.  It used to be almost instantaneous.  Now it takes
10 to 20 seconds.

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[Ketil.Z]

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"Dr. Pete Gieser" <pete@seldon.pog.ufl.edu> writes:

> I'm just curious if anyone knows why it takes so long to jump to a
> group that is not subscribed to.  Using XEmacs 19.13 and sgnus 0.77.
> It used to be almost instantaneous.  Now it takes 10 to 20 seconds.

I have the same problem with sgnus 0.76.  Jumping into a mail group, I
get a «Fetching headers» message that stays for an unbearably long
time.  Newsgroups are still fast.

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[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Ketil" == Ketil Z <ketil@ii.uib.no> writes:

Ketil> "Dr. Pete Gieser" <pete@seldon.pog.ufl.edu> writes:

>> I'm just curious if anyone knows why it takes so long to jump to a
>> group that is not subscribed to.

Switching groups mail or news, has always been very slow for me.  I've
always assumed it had something to do with a huge active file -- the
local news server had over 15,000 newsgroups the last time I counted.
Nothing Gnus does with that many newsgroups is fast ... (or did the
last time I checked, which was quite awhile ago).

Ketil> I have the same problem with sgnus 0.76.  Jumping into a mail group, I
Ketil> get a «Fetching headers» message that stays for an unbearably long
Ketil> time.  Newsgroups are still fast.

The «Fetching headers» message is something different.  The speed of
that varies widely depending on the backend and the editor.  XEmacs
19.13 + nnmh can be excruciatingly slow and memory hungry.  Emacs is
better behaved though.  I've heard a number of performance complaints
fetching mail from backends off of NFS.
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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> Switching groups mail or news, has always been very slow for me.  I've
> always assumed it had something to do with a huge active file -- the
> local news server had over 15,000 newsgroups the last time I counted.

No, the size of the active file shouldn't affect the speed of
switching between groups.  The number of (un)subscribed group does
affect speed, though -- especially when using topics.

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