From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68822 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus' speed Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:03:11 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <87zlao7j1z.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248815185 9140 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2009 21:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:06:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17242@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 28 23:06:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVtsE-0003nG-PF for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:06:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MVtpf-00040v-U8; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MVtpe-00040b-GO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MVtpZ-0007vc-VO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MVtq8-0000Bm-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:04:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MVtpX-0003gz-J8 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:03:27 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:03:27 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:03:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CkSRkRlvhYAZYVsjE1BLvew6Z/0= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68822 Archived-At: On 2009-07-28 19:34 +0100, Daniel Clemente wrote: > Hi, > > I think operations in Gnus are not only slower than many other > clients, but also too slow to keep the user happy. I suffer the > consequences since I use nnimap in Gnus with Gmail (note that the > Gmail web interface is much faster). > > To discuss how to improve Gnus' speed I started this page on > EmacsWiki > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusSpeed I disabled gnus agent and adaptive scoring (the adaptive score files can go up to tens of megabytes) and Gnus has been pretty fast except when downloading attachments. I think it is due to the external program used (gnutls?). I suspected by using openssl it will be faster but I have never got it to work with gnus. So now I use gmail for emails and Gnus for news. > There we can discuss possible solutions, workarounds, бн and share > experiences. > > > -- Daniel -- Leo's Emacs uptime: 48 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes, 25 seconds