From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2103 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Getting News still difficult... Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:47:51 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Message-ID: <84r8a7mbe0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <87heb5g6vl.fsf@lux99.home> <84el69vmk8.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87el675hoo.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668658 13939 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045478918 46520302 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2p/Qu7bLY/i3brHXeYkimbXOCFk= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2243 Original-Lines: 30 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2243 Tue Jan 17 17:30:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2103 Archived-At: upro writes: > kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> upro writes: >> >>> I was getteing the first (one!) article from comp.os.linux.networking, >>> and gnus read 4500 KB before it displayed a two-message thread! >> >> You mean you hit RET on the group name and then you typed "-1" when >> it asked you how many articles to download? >> >> See the section "Customization" in the Gnus info file. It has >> suggestions that might be useful. > > > Now I inserted gthe following lines into my .gnus.el: > (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) > (setq gnus-read-active-file nil) > (setq gnus-show-threads nil) > (setq gnus-use-cross-reference nil) > > ... and now gnus takes ages (really ages!) to start... :-( > > Another error of mine?? Have you tried other values? The docs say that gnus-fetch-old-headers equals `some' can be slow. Is it the problem? -- A turnip curses Elvis