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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus limit: opening huge group
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:24:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dqewdoy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201121020651.i25hwv5bmwg6vi5v@fedora.osfans.org>

Kevin Shell <kshell@gmx.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:37:47AM -0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Kevin Shell <kshell@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hello Gnus users.
>> >
>> > When I try to open very huge newsgroup with
>> > C-u <Enter>
>> > and request fetching all the news messages
>> > Gnus behaves badly,
>> > the CPU makes very loud noise and Gnus can't open the group.
>> > The Gnus's fetching speed compares with neomutt is relatively slow,
>> > is the probelm with Emacs lisp VS C?
>> > Noemutt can open huge group with header cache,
>> > but Gnus just can't open huge group.
>>
>> Is this an nntp server, or some other backend?
> It's nntp backend.
>
>>You mention newsgroups,
>> which sounds like nntp, but also neomutt, which sounds like mail.
> neomutt also supports nntp.

Oh, I didn't know that.

>>Not that I'm going to have much of a solution for you, but I do feel like
>> nntp handles large groups without too much trouble. Even if it takes a
>> while, it shouldn't spin up your fans.
> Gnus takes very long time to open,
> often eventually can't open huge group.
> Reguarding huge group,
> Emacs lisp VS C does have some performance impact.

Hmm, that's too bad. I don't think there are any nntp speedups on the
horizon, that's already been worked on pretty well. How many articles
are you trying to load?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-21 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20 13:30 Kevin Shell
2020-11-20 18:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-11-21  2:06   ` Kevin Shell
2020-11-21 21:46     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-11-21 22:24     ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-11-22  3:21       ` Kevin Shell
2020-11-22 16:32         ` Eric Abrahamsen

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